Reflection Quotes

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

- Daphne du Maurier

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

- Jane Austen

"So it goes…"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"It was a pleasure to burn."

- Ray Bradbury

"The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past."

- William Faulkner

"Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading."

- Kazuo Ishiguro

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

- Tennessee Williams

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

- William Shakespeare

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter."

- Mark Twain

"It is dreadful that one cannot tear out the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?"

- Charlie Brown

"It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."

- Bruce Lee

"Use your youth so that you may have the comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof."

- Walter Raleigh

"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

- William Shakespeare

"Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years."

- Taylor Swift

"Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof."

- Walter Raleigh

"Every defeat is a victory in itself."

- Francisco Maturana García

"I’m 30 now, but back when I was 19…that’s seven years ago."

- Michael Owen

"It’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between."

- Sara Evans

"Wednesday means we’re halfway through half-assing our work for the week."

- Anonymous

"____, your birthday is the perfect time to reflect on all your questionable life choices… with a glass of wine in hand."

"____, on your birthday, remember: you’re not getting older, you’re just collecting more stories for your autobiography."

"On your birthday, let’s have a moment of silence for all those brain cells we lost this year."

"They won't remember, but I will. Their childhood is also my motherhood."

"Forget all the bad memories of a week that’s already gone. Prepare yourself for yet another beautiful week that starts with a delightful Sunday experience."

"May you have all the free time to reflect on the mistakes of yesterday on this Sunday. Give your soul the rest it needs and give yourself some time to be re-energized."

"When you replace ‘why is this happening to me’ with ‘what is this trying to teach me?’ Everything shifts."

"May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past."