Quotes About Reflection

Necessary for a contemplative life: a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Believe like a child, love with an open mind, lose gracefully, accept failure, learn from mistakes...

What I've learned in life... Love - but not too much. Give but leave something for yourself. Fight - but learn to let go. Cry - but try to move on. And most of all... Don't overuse your heart in loving someone. Sometimes we need to use our brain, to stop the pain.

People die, memories dont, cherish the people in your life, let them know you love them because sometimes our loved ones are taken away from us so suddenly we never get the chance to tell them how we really felt.

You don't know what you have until it's gone forever so savor your loved ones, don't waste time and effort on the ones who don't matter, live in the moment, forget your past, once loving will be loved and there's nothing more important than being free from yourself.

Contentment lies within us, it lies in realizing that the love and trust we are trying to get from others, stays within us.

You must make an effort to appreciate what you have, who loves you and who cares for you, because you'll never know how much they mean to you until the day they are no longer beside you. Spend lots of quality time with the people you love. Someday you will either regret not doing so, or you will say, I'm glad I did....

It's strange how the person, who gave you the most painful memories, also gave you the best times to remember.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past

Be strong in loving and forgiving. Remember what you loved in that person who hurt you, remember at some point everyone in your life will hurt you whether intentionally or accidently, know for a fact you are stronger, wiser, and more compassionate from your experiences.

You only get to live life once, so make smart choices, overuse I love you, & think before you speak sometimes the bridges you burn today you may need tomorrow.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Throughout life: I've loved, I've lied, I've hurt, I've lost, I've missed, I've trusted, I've made mistakes..but most of all I've learned.

Strength is looking back,seeing what you have been through and knowing you were strong enough to make it through. Love is looking back and seeing who stuck with you.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, That the moments when you have truly Lived - Are the moments in which you have done things in the Spirit of Love!

In life, you have two loves; one who changes the way you see yourself and the world. The other, who puts you back together after you have lost the first.

I'm not sure if the love that brought us together, is worth the pain that broke us apart

People aren't always who or what we think, sometimes our love, trust and respect distort the signs that are ever so clear in hindsight.

Everything happens for a reason, live it, love it, learn from it! Make your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile :)

If Love is wisdom to the heart then Pain is wisdom to the soul.

We can give only as much love as we were given ourselves.

You are only hurting yourself if you are being rude and unkind; it might not come back to you immediately or in the way you dished it out; but when it boomerangs back at you, it surely comes back in it's own different shape and sizes. Treat people the way you want to be treated. This is the only most important lesson in life, primarily to that; loving God, all the rest is just commentary.

My biggest regret is that I let days pass by, without telling you how much you meant to me. Giving up on you without even fighting is rougher that being rejected.

We become that which we love.