Quotes About Reflection

We pass and leave you lying. No need for rhetoric, for funeral music, for melancholy bugle-calls. No need for tears now, no need for regret. We took our risk with you; you died and we live. We take your noble gift, salute for the last time those lines of pitiable crosses, those solitary mounds, those unknown graves, and turn to live our lives out as we may.

It is all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought First tired of working, Then tired of not.

Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

A TIDY SPELL" I've just been through a tidy spell, I tell you it's a verity, I've sorted out the things to keep, The things to give to charity. I've sorted out my ties and belts, I've sorted out my shirts, I've sorted out my coats and slacks--- To part with some it hurts. I've sorted out my shoes and socks, I've sorted out my shorts, I've sorted out so much, in fact, That now I'm out of sorts. -by Richard Armour

Rarely, however, has the church fundamentally questioned whether military service is consistent with Christian service

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?

There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.

The best thing about the future is that it's in front of you. The best thing about the past is that it lies behind.

Getting over things is often about helping people to learn how to get their minds to let go of things. It means that you put your problems into the past where they belong.