Reflection Quotes

"Falling leaves hide the path so quietly."

- John Bailey

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

- P.D. James

"Autumn writes her poetry, we are merely observers."

- Terri Guillemets

"So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world."

- John Clare

"Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The good thing about weed is that it makes it so that your problems don't bother you. The bad thing about weed is that it makes it so that your problems don't bother you."

- Vlad Ly

"If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed."

- Mohsin Hamid

"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday."

- John Wayne

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in times of misery."

- Aeschylus

"When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."

- Maya Angelou

"Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad."

- Christina Rossetti

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"

- Hayley Williams

"Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear."

- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

"The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results."

- Michael LeBoeuf

"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."

- Albert Einstein

"Wisdom comes from reflection"

- Deborah Day

"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out a wholesome fragrance."

- Desiderius Erasmus

"No, It was Yesterday."

- Grandad

"When you lose your father, you lose a connection to your past. When you become a father, you gain a connection to the future."

- Dan Schawbel

"I was happy floating, staring at the stars."

- Starro, The Suicide Squad

"You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been."

- Frank Mir

"Sometimes you don’t need to decide right then there what’s going to happen. You need to understand that the world keeps turning and nobody needs to rush into any harsh decision or situation. It’s okay to do nothing sometimes."

- Georges St-Pierre

"My former attitude was the luxury of a sheltered child who got to his twenties without ever doubting the stability (and, smugly, I know, the superiority) of his country, without disaster. As it did to so many of my generation, 9/11 broke a stupor that should have broken well before. It seems impossible to me that people who weren't alive then will soon be getting their driver's licenses. When I zoom out, much of this country's history since that day seems a fitful, graceless descent to overseas violence and domestic paranoia. Terrorism works."

- Amit Majmudar

"Names etched on the head of a pin. One name spanning a bridge, another undergoing a tunnel. A blue name needled into the skin. Names of citizens, workers, mothers, and fathers, The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son. Alphabet of names in a green field. Names in the small tracks of birds. Names lifted from a hat Or balanced on the tip of the tongue. Names wheeled into the dim warehouse of memory. So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart."

- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

"It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding."

- Kat Lahr

"It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."

- Claude Monet

"Going back to an ex is like reheating your McDonald’s fries. It’s just never the same after they have been with someone else or events happened between the time you were together and the time you get back together"

"Listen. Think. Speak."

"On September 11, we remember the innocent lives lost, the heroes who stepped forward, and the unity that carried us through."

"On this day... 19 years (September 10th) ago, 246 people went to sleep in preparation for their morning flights. 2,606 people went to sleep in preparation for work in the morning. 343 firefighters went to sleep in preparation for their morning shift. 60 police officers went to sleep in preparation for morning patrol. 8 paramedics went to sleep in preparation for the morning shift. None of them saw past 10:00 am Sept 11, 2001. In one single moment life may never be the same. As you live and enjoy the breaths you take today and tonight before you go to sleep in preparation for your life tomorrow, kiss the ones you love, snuggle a little tighter, and never take one second of your life for granted."