Quotes About Reflection

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Your past determines your future unless you're clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

He missed his imagined future.

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.