Reflection Quotes

"Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful."

- Pamela Anderson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself."

- James Lee Burke

"The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order."

- Michael Pollan

"Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes."

- Yukio Mishima

"Thing about boats is, you can always sell them if you don't like them. Can't sell kids."

- Lin Pardey

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"Look back on the journey that brought you here. What moments challenged you most?"

- Kerry Washington

"The only time to look back in life is when taking a memory test."

- Buddy Hackett

"The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world."

- Heraclitus

"Nothing lasts forever, but at least we've got these memories."

- J. Cole

"Hard to move on when you always regret one."

- J. Cole

"I pray this winter be gentle and kinda season of rest from the wheel of the mind."

- John J. Geddes

"December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory."

- John J. Geddes

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."

- Margaret Wheatley

"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way."

- Margaret Wheatley

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

- J.K. Rowling

"a wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think i, too, have known autumn too long."

- E.E. Cummings

"When I’m old and dying. I plan to look back on my life and say ‘Wow, an adventure’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’"

- Tom Preston-Werner

"The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy."

- Viktor Frankl

"Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted"

"As the year winds down, take some time to reflect on your accomplishments, learn from your mistakes, and set intentions for the year to come."

- Unknown

"As we close one chapter and open another, let us reflect on the lessons learned, the memories cherished, and the dreams we hold dear."

- Unknown

"February brings a sacred blessing: time to reflect, renew, and rejoice in your journey."

"Let a wise saying linger until it makes sense for you."

"Harvest meanings from quotes, but plant conclusions sparingly."

"Questions grow richer when patience is part of the conversation."

"Thoughts become treasures only when we take the time to polish them."

"Sometimes the most brainy leap is to pause and wonder why."