Reflection On Life Quotes

“Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.”
― Germany Kent

“They are voices from the past and their actions have echoed into our world and, unknown to them, they preserved our future.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“In the end, it is not about winning or losing; it is about living.”
― Anastasia Bitkova

“I've never really undestood," the unicorn mused as the man picked himself up," what you dream of doing with me, once you've caught me."
The man leaped again, and she slipped away from him like rain. "I don't think you know yourself," she said.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“In that moment Ned felt a swelling, a ripping expansion, a hugeness that rang through him for the length of his life, a feeling that was sometimes rivalled but never quite matched. Not at weddings, not at births, not at funerals. Not when he worked his way north to Longreach, where he finally saw Toby again, finding him cocky, funny and largely unchanged. Not during good seasons or bad. Not when he was alone on cold waterways, not when he was in the grip of people he loved. Not as he poured dirt into graves, not as he watched his children, then his grandchildren, play. Not on the white sands of hidden beaches. Not in the shade of ancient trees, in whose canopies he imagined he could see the darting of cream-brown quolls. Not on rocky mountain roofs. Not in the presence of whales, not while viewing fine ships. Not at the scent of Huon pine. Not as Callie's last breath eased out of her, in their house overlooking kanamaluka, the eastern sun warming her face right up to the final moments of her life. Not at his ninetieth birthday, surrounded by his family and what was left of his friends, as he felt both powerfully loved and profoundly alone.
Not even then, at the very end of his life, did he feel it again, although he always remembered it: this hugeness of feeling. This undamming of a whole summer's fear, this half-sickening lurch to joy. (pp.225-6)”
― Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

“But I think deciding that we're all just on a track, that we never really had any say over our own decisions — it feels like the kind of thing someone with a log of regrets would need to be true.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“You don’t understand this when you’re younger but at some point, you cease doing things, cease creating new memories,” he thought aloud. “You are stuck in a rocking chair. And all you have are your memories. Those beautiful droplets of color you’ve managed to steal from the rainbow. And you go back to them over and over and over, like a Catholic praying the rosary. You dig in deep, sifting through decades, years, seasons, weeks, hours, and seconds of your life, trying to figure out what it all meant. I wanted to come back to you. I wanted to see you in color, to grasp my own little rainbow.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, Vanishing Bodies: An Epic Science Fiction Thriller

“When trust is lost, let experience guide you.”
― Mahsati Abdul

“Hopefully your life doesn't become the reality and reflection of the stained feelings that you have impressed and imposed upon someone else.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“...it's the darkness between the stars we have to make sense of.”
― Joseph N. Vaughan, These Yellow Sands: Memories of Manteo

“We are all tourists when it comes to understanding the past. We visit what might have been and pretend to know what was.”
― Joseph N. Vaughan, These Yellow Sands: Memories of Manteo

“For me, understanding my past and knowing that I wasn't doomed gave me the hope and fortitude to deal with the demons of my youth. And though it's cliche, the best medicine was talking about it with. the people who understood. I asked Aunt Wee if she had similar relationship experiences, and she answered almost reflexively: Of course.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Build me up like a tower on the heights of your sanctuary,
And set me like a seal upon your heart.
Make me drunk with the blood of the foe on the day of war
And satisfy me with his flesh on the night of redemption.
Place the cup of salvation upon my right hand
That my tongue may give voice in joy to a song of love.
For nearly a thousand years I have declared my sorrow
With many tears and with fasting,—will You not answer me?”
― Samuel ha-

“Life endlessly offers us chances to set new directions and in the process grow and change; when we look in the rearview mirror, we catch a glimpse of former selves who sometimes seem unrecognizable.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“Do you feel like a remnant of something that's past?”
― Nick Drake (Musician)

“Is that why we have a tomorrow?’ he asked himself. ‘Tomorrow is about hope, and it’s always a little out of reach. But it is there. It’s always there.”
― Sujit Kumar Singh, The Daughter

“Tomorrow is about hope, and it’s always a little out of reach. But it is there. It’s always there.”
― Sujit Kumar Singh, The Daughter

“Learn to embrace pain as a profound teacher, an impetus for introspection and transformation.”
― Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

“Success in one area doesn’t always translate to success in another. - Leadership, Accountability, and the Cost of Anger: A Reflection on What Truly Defines Progress (Medium Story)”
― Carlos Wallace

“The truth is often an unkind conspiracy.”
― Elisabet Tomi

“A famous Russian proverb: Don't blame the mirror if your face is awry. (smile)”
― Arlaana Black, A DAY IN THE NEXT: A Journey From Brooklyn to Buddhism

“Sometimes, it is crucial to embrace solitude with the purpose of forging a deeper connection with oneself, free from dependence on others' perceptions or validation. In those quiet moments, you find the space to cultivate a profound connection with who you are, and who you want to become by reflecting on your aspirations, values, and dreams.”
― Dhayana Alejandrina, Agridulce: poetry and prose

“Every man is confined to the limits of his own mind.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism And On Human Nature

“Parents build the foundation of our lives, and we go through our life feeling this is the way things are suppose to me. For the most part there’s positives surrounding us, so we never take the time to think about the sacrifices our parents have made to get us on our feet. Once their gone, heaven awaits, and their together. We wonder in complete reflection how they accomplished so much! We look back grateful and, fulfilled. I’m one of four siblings, and us four are mom, and dads’ greatest achievements. Thank you, Mom and Dad, and thank you Jesus. Amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“One day, all that is, will be all that was.
So, what shall fade into the hindsight? Only God's gift and teaching of Time foresees what we cannot yet fathom to find in our clockwise awareness.”
― Jasmine McMorran

“Subok ko lang ito sa pagsusulat. Pero salamat sa isang pagkakataon. #SubokLang”
― Dayana, Sa Muling Pagmumuni-muni Ni Di

“and remember, the stillness is just as powerful as the action; they both require each other.”
― Dhayana Alejandrina

“You are just reflecting back onto the world your emotions related to the circumstances you experience.”
― Steven Redhead, Life's a Revelation

“The cup was emptied and would never be filled again”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Every story I've written started as something I was afraid to say out loud.”
― Constantina Constantinou, Letters to the Girl I Used to Be: What I learned when I stopped apologising for my truth