Quotes about Reflection

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.