Quotes About Reflection

You know life is worth the struggle when you look back on what you lost and realize what you have now is way better than before.

Ive made a lot of mistakes in my life, but you have to make mistakes in order to learn from them. therefore, I learn something new every day.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.

At the end of the day it's the choices you make that count.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away

We learn not in the school, but in life

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.

Every day of your life is a page of your history

Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy.

Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees