Reflection Quotes

"Walking is a technique of solitude, a way into reverie. The walker is not a sleepwalker but a daydreamer."

- Deirdre Heddon

""When I think about all the patients and their loved ones I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don’t remember me, nor I them. But I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them, and they to me, and those threads make up the tapestry that is my career in nursing.""

- Donna Wilk Cardillo

"I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose."

- Kobe Bryant

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Count your age by friends, not years."

- John Lennon

"We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work—and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock!"

- Dave Allen

"I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be."

- Walter Cronkite

"Well, I didn't grow up with that word 'retirement' as part of my consciousness. I didn't grow up with professionals that retired. I thought retiring was when you are tired and go to bed."

- Ruby Dee

"My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'"

- Chris Pine

"Working people have a lot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work."

- Clarence Darrow

"I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy."

- Danny McGoorty

""It's amazing how I've measured my life in teaspoons of coffee.""

- Thomas Stearns Eliot

""I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.""

- T. S. Eliot

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

- T.S. Eliot

"Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self."

- Terry Pratchett

"Sitting there, in the coffee house, I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold."

- Lidia Longorio

"Even when things are going great for me, the best part of my day comes with the first four or five sips of my morning coffee. Either my life is pathetic, or coffee is really good."

- John Scheck

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them"

- Andy Bernard

"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."

- Brian Reed

"I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing."

- Tadao Ando

"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn."

- Maya Lin

"In a moment of anger, think about the consequences of your actions. In a moment of patience, think about the consequences of your reactions."

- Zig Ziglar

"Speak when you are angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

- Ambrose Bierce

"Anger is temporary but words said in anger aren't."

- Marion Bekoe

"In every joyous moment, I see reflections of the love, the lessons, and the legacy we share."

"Tuesday is the day I actually start the week; Monday I just deal with the depression of the weekend ending."

- Unknown

"Dear Tuesday, nobody likes you. You’re just Monday’s ugly cousin."

- Unknown

"I wish this Tuesday was Friday."

- Unknown

"Tuesday: The day after Monday that reminds you that you still have four more days of not trying to slap a fellow co-worker."

- Unknown

"Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted..."