Reflection Quotes

"January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, a frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow."

- Edgar Fawcett

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but for potential."

- Ellen Goodman

"January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow."

- Sara Coleridge

"January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future."

- M. L. Stedman

"Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past."

- Homaro Cantu

"It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?"

- John Lennon

"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."

- John Lennon

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."

- John Lennon

"I no longer believe in myth, and Beatles is another myth. The dream is over."

- John Lennon

"The Beatles gave everything they had to give, and more. Going back to the Beatles would be like going back to school."

- John Lennon

"Why does February feel like one big Tuesday?"

- Todd Stocker

"February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer."

- Shirley Jackson

"Thick February mists cling heavily to the dead earth and to each leafless tree."

- Emma Lazarus

"Finish every day and be done with it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. It invites to the noblest solitude and to the noblest society."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”"

- Madeleine L'Engle

"I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets."

- Grace Kelly

"The paradox of reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read."

- David Perell

"Reading can teach you the best of what others already know. Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know."

- James Clear

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill."

- Christopher Parker

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

- Wallace Stevens

"Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."

- Cat Stevens

"January is the quietest month in the garden... But just because it looks quiet doesn't mean that nothing is happening."

"Dear past, thanks for all the lessons. Dear future, I am ready."

"Competition brings out the best in products and worst in men."

"Hello February, we meet again, short, but you still bring the rain."

"Birthdays are good times to remember our friends. At our age, it's good to remember almost anything!"

"Happy 75th Birthday! May your day be adorned with the sweet memories of yesteryears and the promise of beautiful moments yet to come."

"Never forget in the light, what you learned in the darkness."