Quotes About Reflection

Michael, I think we need to break up." If

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

I've returned to my

what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise

Regret is a useless emotion: it's like brushing your teeth after you find a cavity.

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do. It was nice to be reminded of all I had to be grateful for.

It's a shame people don't have the advantage of knowing when their time's up..They would stop trading time for trinkets –

Too many times we lose today's battles because we're still engaged in fighting yesterday's.

Life's book is written on the heart.

That's what hate does – it remakes us in its image.

Of all, clockmakers and morticians should bear the keenest sense of priority - their lives daily spent in observance of the unflagging procession of time...and the end thereof.

Ostin suddenly nodded. "Oh, I get it. It's payback. Let her stew in her own juices. Awesome.

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

There isn't time for regret. There never is.

Just like my great-grandfather," Jack said. "He died in his sleep. Much more peacefully than the screaming passengers in the car he was driving.

Just seeing the sign brought pain. There was so much I would do differently. I read somewhere that too often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with. I could relate to that.

So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

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