Reflection Quotes

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

- Gretchen Rubin

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you’re in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you’re doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary."

- Connie Schultz

"Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks."

- Nancy Hatch Woodward

"Surrendering to the fact of winter is a relief: I am grateful for these lingering days of cold. They offer me a few more weeks of quiet and slow before spring emerges, the wheel picks up speed again, and the sound of its exciting spinning fills my days."

- Kelsi Turner

"Winter is nature’s sleep."

- H.S. Jacobs

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs

"When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter."

- Jarod Kintz

"It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet, there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city."

- Truman Capote

"Late at night, listening to the winter rain / Recalling my youth— / Was it only a dream? Was I really young once?"

- Ryōkan

"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

- Jack Kerouac

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

- Ernest Hemingway

"One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey."

- Tove Jansson

"The journey not the arrival matters."

- T.S. Eliot

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

- Douglas Adams

"The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way."

- Emma Chase

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination."

- Don Williams

"Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take."

- Angela Blount

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind."

- Peyton Manning

"We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."

- Doug Collins

"Good morning and Happy Wednesday! Today is a fresh page in the book of your week. Fill it with positive thoughts, joyful moments, and the determination to make it a chapter worth remembering."

"Wednesday is a good day to reflect on the steps you have taken and the steps you need to take."

"Wednesday is the perfect day to reflect on what you’ve learned so far this week."

"Cheers to 40 years of awesome memories, and here’s to 40 more!"

- Unknown

"Cheers to four decades of amazing memories! Wishing you the best 40th birthday ever."

- Unknown

"Here’s to celebrating four decades of an amazing life! Cheers to you on your 40th birthday!"

- Unknown