Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Reflection Quotes
Beauty in SadnessMelancholyNatureReflectionSolitude My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Life ExperiencesMusicReflectionSelf-Expression I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I'm going through or what's going on in my life at that moment.
CommunicationExpressionKnowledgeLearningReflection I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Human NatureMemoryReflectionResponsibilityValue of Money Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
AcceptanceChangeHopeReflectionTime Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
MoralityPersonal GrowthReflectionSelf-awareness To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
LearningLifeMemoryReflectionTime Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
ExistenceLife and DeathMortalityReflection Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
AcceptancePerseveranceReflectionResilienceSelf-awareness I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
CommunicationInner WisdomReflectionSelf-ControlSilence Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
EducationPersonal DevelopmentReadingReflectionSelf-Improvement Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
GoalsLife JourneyPersonal GrowthReflectionSelf-awareness Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
GrowthMotivationPerseveranceReflectionSelf-awareness Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
GratitudeGrowthReflectionResilience I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
GrowthPersonal DevelopmentPurposeReflectionSelf-Discovery I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
Decision MakingMindfulnessPatienceReflectionSelf-Control Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
DeliberationMindReflectionThought I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
FutureMotivationPlanningReflectionTime Management This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
ExperienceMemoryNostalgiaReflectionSignificance Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
ChangeHomeJourneyReflectionSelf-Discovery It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
IntellectKnowledgeMindfulnessReflectionSelf-awareness An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
FaithIntrinsic ValuePatienceReflectionSpirituality I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
