Quotes about Reflection
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
— Mark McKinnon
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain
When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
— George Eliot
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past
— Audre Lorde
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every moment is travel - if understood.
— Benjamin Disraeli
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
— Charles Dickens
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo