Quotes about Reflection
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
— Dante Alighieri
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
— John Mayer
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
— Henry David Thoreau
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
— Epicurus
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
— CS Lewis
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
— GK Chesterton
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
— Victor Hugo
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
— Adrian Rogers
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
— Thomas a Kempis
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
— Marcel Pagnol