Reflection Quotes

"Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face."

- Frances McDormand

"Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made."

- Matt Damon

"It’s amazing how skewed your vision can become when you see the present through the lens of your past. It was a very difficult psychological rehabilitation for us to learn how to put down the snow globe."

- Will Smith

"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."

- Joe Gores

"Many people don’t realize this, but the Taj Mahal is a single mausoleum, designed, constructed, and maintained for one woman: Mumtaz Mahal, the favorite wife of Emperor Shah Jahan. The emperor was so distressed by the death of his beloved that he commissioned the construction of the Taj Mahal. He preserved her body for the more than twenty years it took to build (from 1632 to 1653); he spent thirty-two million rupees (nearly a billion dollars in today’s currency), and employed twenty thousand of the world’s greatest artisans, imported Italian marble (which was not an easy thing to do in seventeenth-century India—and not to mention that India had its own makrana marble he could have been using), all to create a private tomb worthy of his lost love."

- Will Smith

"The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup."

- Robert Frost

"The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"

- Dodie Smith

"Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided."

- Kate Chopin

"Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?"

- Eugene Kennedy

"In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen."

- Steven Millhauser

"Well, summer slipped us underneath her tongue / Our days and nights are perfumed with obsession"

- Lorde

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

- William Shakespeare

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

- William Shakespeare

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

- William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

- William Shakespeare

"Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?"

- Joaquin Phoenix

"In the embrace of night, welcome home to the realm of dreams and nightmares."

- Bram Stoker

"A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning."

- William Shakespeare

"Everything becomes a story. The conversations that I have, and the moments that I spend with people around me. The moments of silences that I have in my day to day life. The sudden wanderings that I have in my weekends. The dreams that I dream. The thoughts that I think. Everything becomes a poem or a story in my life."

- Avijeet Das

"Time may be a great healer, but it is a lousy beautician."

"On this day of remembrance, we gather to honor a life well-lived. Your memory dances in the wind and whispers in our hearts."

"Though the pain of loss may still be felt, we find solace in the poetry of your life. Your words continue to echo in our souls."

"On this anniversary, we take a moment to reflect on the beauty you brought into our lives. Your spirit is a symphony of love."

"As we remember you today, we are reminded of the power of words. Your voice continues to resonate in our hearts."

"If you think the price of living is too high, wait till you see the bill for regret"

"You had a thousand thoughts a minute, you think too much But you don't never say too much."

"Let today be a day to refuel your soul and be grateful for the blessings. Your journey deserves a moment of reflection. Have a great Tuesday!"

"Appreciate where you are in your journey, even if it's not where you want to be. Every season serves a purpose."