Quotes about Reflection
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,The vapors weep their burthen to the ground,Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,And after many a summer dies the swan.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
But the tender grace of a day that is deadWill never come back to me.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The days will grow to weeks, the weeks to months,The months will add themselves and make the years,The years will roll into the centuries,And mine will ever be a name of scorn.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy autumn fields,And thinking of the days that are no more.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great world's altar-stairs,That slope through darkness up to God.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
— Alice Hoffman
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
— Alice Walker
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
— Alice Walker