Quotes about Reflection
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
— Karl Barth
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
— AA Milne
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
— Benjamin Disraeli
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
— Dante Alighieri
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
— John Mayer
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
— Henry David Thoreau
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it
— Epicurus
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
— CS Lewis
Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
— Dorothy Day
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
— GK Chesterton