Reflection Quotes

"All it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Starfleet officer. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a bargain."

- a plain simple tailor

"All ideas, Captain, seem like good ones at the time they are being undertaken. It is only with the full clarity of hindsight that we determine whether our initial impulses were correct or not."

- Spock

"Life is like tetris, your mistakes pile up and your accomplishments disappear."

- Lt. Commander La Forge

"Death is that state in which one only exists in the memory of others; which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories."

- Tasha Yar

"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life."

- James Kirk

"Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Pain is temporary; but pride and shame and gratitude and regret last forever."

- Mr-Homemaker

"One must have a mind of winter, to regard the frost and the boughs, of the pine-trees crusted with snow."

- Wallace Stevens

"What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?"

- Pablo Neruda

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick—even when you're home."

- Carol Nelson

"Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance—each beautiful, unique, and gone too soon."

- Deborah Whipp

"The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess."

- Tess Gerritsen

"Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music."

- Tom Sims

"Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow."

- Paulo Coelho

"Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind."

- Stephen King

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here."

- Finley Peter Dunne

"I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK ."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back."

- Zinedine Zidane

"Sorry, I can't talk right now, thinking about my past."

- Ben Reilly

"Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good."

- William O’Rourke

"I may regret the way we ended, but I will never regret what we had."

- Drake

"All the years combine they melt into a dream A broken angel sings from a guitar In the end there's just a song comes crying like the wind through all the broken dreams and vanished years"

- Dizzy-Ad4584

"You're doing everything right."

"What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived."

"Every shell tells a story of survivals and sunsets seen"

"Honoring a friend's death is truly about honoring their life. You may feel despair over what may have been, but try to hold onto the wonderful times you shared."

"In the quiet moments, may memories bring both tears and smiles."

"Laughter silenced, but memories play on."

"Remember them with laughter and tears, for both honor the life they lived."