Quotes about Reflection
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Before you act; Listen, before you react; Think, before you spend; Earn, before you criticize; Wait, before you pray; Forgive, before you quit; Try.
- Ernest Hemingway
My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- Forrest Gump
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
- Marcus Aurelius
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
- Marcus Aurelius
Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.
- Marcus Aurelius
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius