Quotes About Reflection

The wise person is one who can see beyond the immediate and recognize the long-term consequences of their actions.

Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.

Repent of thy sins, make a sincere confession, amend thy ways, and begin to think seriously about thy eternal salvation.

Ich bin die Asche einer Glut, die ich nicht war.

Auf jeden Fall werde ich, oder wenigstens will ich, wenn nicht, dann doch, allerdings müsste ich, und kann nicht.

A good multitasker always sets aside time at the end of the day to review what has happened today, and based on what must happen tomorrow, creates a plan of attack for the next day.

She wanted to warn them; they would waste their youth because they did not realise just how fleeting it was, and because most people did.

Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.

Like the old adage, you never knew what you had till it was gone.

eventually you regretted the things you hadn't done as much as the things you had.

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

regrets were a waste of time.

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are." Never was a truer word said!

Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!

walked from it he hawked deep in his throat before

His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.

Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.

One day, you'll wake up and thirty or forty years will have flown by.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

Live your life how you want. Before you know it you'll be old. Old as me. And when you get to my age you get a different perspective on life. Suddenly, every day seems just that little bit shorter. You feel the ache coming in your bones. You know that the best, most fruitful part of your life is over. I read once that when people get old and go senile, they go back to a time in their life when they were useful.

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: Judge thou my cause. Lamentations 3:59

Oh, to be that young again, and know what she knew now.

The way you treat me baby Cheat and tell me lies I guess I shouldn't care at all But still I sympathize 'cause you got heart trouble Coming on Yeah you got heart trouble coming on Well you think that you don't need me baby But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone