Quotes about Reflection
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
— Margaret Atwood
Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
— Gordon Hinckley
All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
— John Donne
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
— Samuel Johnson
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
— Napoleon Hill
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
— Nelson Mandela
The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
— Paulo Coelho
In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.
— Paulo Coelho
No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
— Oprah Winfrey
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
— Oscar Wilde
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
— Oscar Wilde