Quotes about Reflection
You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
— Tertullian
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
— Martin Luther
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
— Elbert Hubbard
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Cicero
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment
— Seneca
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
— Washington Irving
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
— Walt Whitman
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer