Quotes About Reflection

I still look at myself and want to improve.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Dig a little deeper. Think of something that we've never thought of before.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

Language is the dress of thought.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.