Reflection Quotes

"You are the sum of all the moments of your life." "We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness" "Life is for the living, death is for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid" "Every man's memory is his private literature" "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones." "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?" "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs" "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action" "God is at home; it is we who have gone out for a walk" "Judge not that you be not judged" "Our lives teach us who we are" "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence" "Memory's truth is to desire" "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect" "We only think when we are confronted with problems" "The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time" "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery" "To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. Number two is think. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears."