Reflection Quotes

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Now tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

- Mary Oliver

"It’s all about the journey, not the outcome."

- Carl Lewis

"I didn’t lose the gold. I won the silver."

- Michelle Kwan

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

- Sigmund Freud

"Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?"

- Charlotte Smith

"If you really want closure... at some point, you have to shut the door."

- Jacki Wells Wunderlin

"Once upon a time, it was made for us (For us)/ Woke up one day, it had turned to dust/ Baby, we were found, but now we're lost/ So it's time to let it go."

- Miley Cyrus

"Did it frighten you, how we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?"

- Lorde

"Just because a relationship ends, it doesn’t mean it’s not worth having."

- Sarah Mlynowski

"I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished."

- Mikhail Lermontov

"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, MA, RN, CSP

"I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."

- Florence Nightingale

"Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch."

- Judy Blume

"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

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today"

"Today is always here, said Sethe. Tomorrow, never."

"You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back."

"Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it."

"Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move on."

"I'm no longer following my heart. It keeps giving me bad directions."

"Pain is the person you never want to see. But without Pain, how would you recognize Joy?"

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better."

"If you went back and erased all the mistakes you've made, you erase yourself."

"Good morning and Happy Wednesday! As the week’s midpoint, today offers the perfect opportunity to reflect on your goals, adjust your sails, and set a course for success."