Quotes About Reflection

Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.

A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again

There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

People who are unwilling to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up each morning and continue to make the same mistakes

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.