Quotes About Reflection

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

Nothing is ever behind us.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and dont forget to acknowledge yourself and others.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Taking back our light from those we've projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

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The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.