Quotes about Reflection
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
— Anonymous
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
— Samuel Johnson
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
— Victor Hugo
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.
— Albert Schweitzer
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.
— Anonymous