78 Quotes About Reflection-on-life

Sometimes, when it’s quiet and I’m alone with you, I ask myself what I’d give to see your whole life all laid out like a photo album. To know every bliss and calamity before it happens.

There’s little growth and progression without learning and reflection

He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.

Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow.

It all comes down to the first thing you think of when you wake up. That first image or idea before the filtering of conscious thought takes over, while you’re still in between. Whatever you think of, that’s the reason you get up in the first place. That’s the reason you get out of bed, into your clothes, into your shoes, and out the door.

The inability to indulge in something new is the most vivid sign of lack of control.

Can you imagine sitting there letting the sea roll over you your whole life. No feet. No locomotion. Your whole fate decided by what washes over you.”“And that’s different than us?

...reflection can transform something familiar.

It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.