Reflection Quotes

"Learn from the past, but don’t live in it."

- Thomas Griffin

"Temper your desire of consumption by spending more time in periods of reflection."

- Thomas Griffin

"The years will rush by, and one day you will be watching your son as a man."

- Steve Biddulph

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true, that who is what and what is who."

- A.A. Milne, Author Winnie-the-Pooh

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."

- Wallace Stevens

"The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone."

- Robert Plant

"January is the quietest month in the garden… But just because it looks quiet doesn’t mean that nothing is happening."

- Rosalie Muller Wright

"I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray"

- Cassandra Clare

"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."

- Mitch Albom

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real."

- Nora Ephron

"Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like pressed flower… both strange and familiar."

- Cornelia Funke

"but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."

- Jane Austen

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a person’s mind can get both provocation and privacy."

- Edward P. Morgan

"Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves."

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

"Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter."

- Kirti Kulhari

"A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it."

- Madeline Brewer

"A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons."

- Isabel Allende

"Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love."

- Marcel Wanders

"La historia nunca dice 'adiós'. Lo que dice siempre es un 'hasta luego'."

- Eduardo Galeano

""December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.""

- Oprah Winfrey

"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December. And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing and sweet to remember."

- Oliver Herford

"Those whose memories fade seek to carve them in their hearts..."

"The longer the road, the deeper the thoughts."

"In quiet reflections, seek the unspoken truths."

"We all need a quiet, reflective space before welcoming in a new year."

""The light in winter is a poetry of patience.""