Reflection Quotes

"History, especially in certain places, is not a dead thing. It is a wonderful, almost holy experience."

- Kasi Lemmons

"When we are creating a shared history, what we remember is just as revelatory as what we forget."

- Ibram X. Kendi

"On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career."

- Lionel Messi

"The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more."

- Lionel Messi

"Yesterday is passed, tomorrow is the future"

- Snow White, Snow White

"The days are long but the years are short."

- Gretchen Rubin

"Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?"

- Tupac Shakur

"I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me."

- Lisa Goich-Andreadis

"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year."

- E.B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner

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

- Deborah Whipp

"You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you."

- Wayne Dyer

"Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the deathbed priority test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more hours at work or more with your friend?"

- Hal Lancaster

"It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning."

- Jimmy Buffett

"Yet now in my arms, I was holding a helpless baby boy who would grow into a man5 I cannot imagine that soft little face one-day having whiskers."

- Rhonda Stoppe

"Contrary to the other three hundred days of the year, when you’re running and doing and building and constructing, the Jewish holidays provide a kind of in-built way to pause and to gather yourself and regenerate… Our lives can become so full of activities and to-do tasks that, in some sense, the soul becomes overwhelmed. We need to defragment our souls. We can be pulled in so many different directions, but the holidays help that part of us that needs meaning and connection and great purpose… Holiday rituals are ancient technologies that carry contemporary wisdom. Judaism works."

- Rabbi David Ingber, as quoted in My Jewish Year by Abigail Pogrebin

"The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day."

- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone."

- Natalie Babbitt

"Sometimes it takes a good fall to know where you stand."

- Hayley Williams

"You were right, mother. You were right about everything."

- Rapunzel

"And for that one moment, everything was perfect … And then that moment ended."

- Flynn Rider

"Slow hours aren’t wasted—they’re sacred reminders that life doesn’t have to be rushed to be meaningful"

- Unknown

"Friday isn’t just a day—it’s a sigh of survival, a shift in pace, and the start of remembering who you are again"

- Unknown

"Your weekend doesn’t need a schedule to be meaningful—sometimes clarity shows up in the spaces where nothing is planned"

- Unknown

"Take these days not to escape your life, but to remember how you want to live it"

- Unknown

"A few quiet hours might tell you more than a month of busy noise ever could"

- Unknown

"The rest you give yourself now becomes the clarity that guides your next steps"

- Unknown

"Weekends are life's way of hitting the refresh button on our souls."

- Unknown

"Good morning! I woke up today thinking about how far we’ve come and how much we’ve been through together. It’s amazing to look back and see how much we’ve grown, both individually and as a team. I’m so grateful for every moment we’ve shared, every laugh, every tear, and every late-night conversation. You’ve been such an important part of my life, and I’m excited to see where our journey takes us next. Here’s to another day of making memories and living life to the fullest!"

"Fifty years is not the end; it’s a moment to reflect and a chance to shine brighter."

- Unknown

"At our age we've seen it all, heart it all, done it all. We just can't remember it all! Happy 50th birthday and cheers to many more memories we might forget!"