Quotes about Reflection
I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
— Lewis Carroll
How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?
— Lewis Carroll
Ever drifting down the stream ? Lingering in the golden gleam ? Life, what is it but a dream?
— Lewis Carroll
Everything's got a moral if only you can find it.
— Lewis Carroll
It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
— Lewis Carroll
Our first response when angered should be to turn away momentarily, mentally or physically, so we can separate the offense from the offender.
— Lisa Bevere
Solitude is sometimes best society.
— John Milton
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
— Marianne Williamson
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
— Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is sometimes the best society.
— John Milton
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
— John Ortberg