Reflection Quotes

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have 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

"It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection."

- Elizabeth Camden

"Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering."

- Debasish Mridha

"Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep—a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon."

- Michael Leunig

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

- Steve Jobs

""Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?""

- Komal Kapoor

"It’s so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can’t see beyond yourself."

- Patricia A. McKillip

"Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."

- Stanley Crawford

"“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”"

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show."

- Andrew Wyeth

"Thursday comes, and the week's gone."

- George Herbert

"This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

- Douglas Adams

"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you're happy. But you don't really believe it. You focus on the petty bull ****, or the next job, or whatever. It's only looking back by comparison with what comes after that you really understand, that's what happiness felt like."

- Kellogg (Fallout 4)

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

- Dr. Seuss

"“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”"

- William Gibson

"Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse’s positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently."

- Rabbi Pliskin

"Your priorities aren’t what you SAY they are. They are revealed by how you live. What does your life say about the value of your family and marriage?"

- Marriage Today

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Dear past, thank you for all the lessons. Dear future, I am ready. Good Morning!"

"It’s Saturday, a day to reflect on things you want rather than what you don’t have. Be happy today. Happy Saturday!"

"If you do nothing today, nothing will change. Here is a Saturday to think and fix all the little things you have been overlooking."

"I am not a hoarder; I’m a curator of memories."

""Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days give you experience.""

"That moment when you finish a game and don’t know what to do with your life."

"I have too much stuff. Time to move to a bigger house… or declutter."

"The best way to pack? Shove it all in a box and hope for the best!"

"Why own things when moving them is such a pain?"

"The only thing harder than moving is deciding what to keep."

"Leap Year is a reminder that sometimes a little extra time is all we need to make a big difference. Happy Leap Day to you."

"This isn’t a famous quote, but something a friend told me when I messed up at work once. Ever since then it has been my go-to comfort thought when I make mistakes… “people don’t care about what you do right or what you do wrong….everyone is so wrapped up in themselves, they will forget about your triumphs and your mistakes way before you do.”"