Quotes about Reflection

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.