Reflection Quotes

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

- Laurence J. Peter

"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"

- Karl Kraus

"When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy."

- Emmanuel Jal

"How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?"

- Margaret Atwood

"It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go."

- Jean Genet

"Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways."

- Shannon A. Thompson

"The sunrise, of course, doesn't care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it."

- Gene Amole

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves."

- Lito Tejada-Flores

"The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it."

- Herbert A. Simon

"I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view."

- Sebastian Thrun

"Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God."

- Jeremy Lin

"The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble—to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills."

- Phillip Connors

"Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it."

- Douglas Hyde

""The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls.""

- Lori Lansens

""When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.""

- Roz Savage

""There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself—in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak and fatigue—that has to be the goal.""

- Karyn Kusama

""The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.""

- Herbert A. Simon

""You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves.""

- Lito Tejada-Flores

"There was a lot left in me. I never got the chance to show them."

- Doc Hudson

"On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain."

- Yoda

"Every corner of the hood holds a story – a lament, a love ballad, a victory cry."

- Tupac Shakur

"The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come."

- Biggie Smalls

"Your reputation is what gets you through the doors the streets tried to close."

- Jay-Z

"Cherish the times you can watch the sunrise, there’s only so many in a lifetime."

"கடக்க போகும் பெறும் பாதையை கண்டு வியக்கும் போது, கடந்து வந்த பெறும் பாதையை நினைத்து பாருங்கள்."

"ஒரு நாள் நீ வாழ்ந்த வாழ்க்கை உன் கண் முன் தெரியும்.. அதை ரசிக்கும் படியாக வைத்து கொள்."