Quotes About Reflection

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend — to tell you you did all you could.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.