Quotes About Reflection

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

The happiest memories are of moments that ended when they should have.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.