Quotes about Reflection
We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
— Anonymous
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
— Epicurus
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
— George Eliot
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
— Anonymous
One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
— Samuel Johnson
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
— Anonymous
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
— Marcus Aurelius
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
— Oscar Wilde
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
— Epictetus