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Quotes About Reflection

Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.
~ Maria V. Snyder
Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.
~ Unknown
I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
~ Martha Beck
The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.
~ Martha Ronk
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
~ Mason Cooley
Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.
~ Robert Browning
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
~ Blaise Pascal
The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
~ Bob Dylan
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
~ Abraham Maslow
You cannot plan the future by the past.
~ Edmund Burke
Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past.
~ Chris Vonada
Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~ Arthur Wing Pinero
It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.
~ Unknown
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
~ Octavio Paz
The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
~ Warren Spector
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
~ Jon Gordon
Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
~ Joseph M. Juran
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
~ Ken Blanchard
If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
~ S. N. Goenka