Quotes About Reflection

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

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

Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.

In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life