Reflection Quotes

"Life is not always extraordinary in all its details, but it is the sum of those ordinary events that add up to extraordinary lives. The journal is no different."

- Journal Fodder

"That’s the thing with a diary, though. In order to record your life, you sort of need to live it, not at your desk, but beyond it, out in the world, where it’s so beautiful, and complex, and painful, that sometimes, you just need to sit down and write about it."

- David Sedaris

"Journaling is a way of capturing your life one day at a time. It is a wonderful way to be able to reflect on your past whether in good times or bad. It is really easy to forget how wonderful your life is in certain times, and a quick look back allows you to see the people, places visited, and get some perspective."

- George Bonelli

"Is not the poet bound to write his own biography? Is there any other work for him but a good journal? We do not wish to know how his imaginary hero, but how he, the actual hero, lived from day to day."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Someone once said that chopping wood to make a fire warms you twice. Writing a journal is like experiencing everything twice … when you do it and when you reflect upon it as you write."

- Steven Wong

"Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection."

- Christina Baldwin

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."

- Anaïs Nin

"Of course, I made some mistakes as Arsenal goalie but I am sure that people also remember that I was unlucky with injuries."

- Lukasz Fabianski

"Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

- Dr. SunWolf

"Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?"

- Leigh Bardugo

"But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field"

- Steve Carlton

"Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all the loss of passion and truth that goes with it."

- Michael Leunig

"Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness."

- Frederica Mathewes-Green

"After 25 years, the only regret I have about transitioning is that I couldn’t live my truth as soon as I knew it — age 4."

- Scott Turner Schofield

"Promises are just dressing for the year to come."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Promises should never grow old."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched."

- Ellen Goodman

"Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits."

- C.R. Lawton

"Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death."

- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."

- John Updike

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."

- Samuel Smiles

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

- Bertrand Russell

"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent."

- Barbara Bush

"I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before I listen for returning feet And voices at the door"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."

- Haruki Murakami

"It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life."

- Michael LeBoeuf

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

- Paul Harvey

"Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. And, before you quit, try."

""The beauty you see in others is a reflection of yourself.""