Quotes about Reflection
He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
— Hannah More
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.
— Henri Nouwen
The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.
— Henry B. Eyring
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
— Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford
As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
— Henry Reed
What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.
— Hillary Clinton
You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."
— John Maxwell
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
— John Calvin
Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.
— Anonymous
This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collapsed time.
— Wendell Berry
Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.
— DH Lawrence