Quotes about Reflection
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
— Hannah More
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
— Donald Miller
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
— Maya Angelou
Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame
— Miranda Hart
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
— Billy Graham
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
— Stephen Covey
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
— Henry David Thoreau
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
— Teresa of Avila
Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.
— Wayne Dyer
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
— Eugene Peterson
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
— Oscar Wilde