1 As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it’s ‘whoosh! Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jeff Lynne, Aging, Reflection., Time, 0 Jeff Lynne Copy
2 The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jan Karon, Growth, Reflection., Transition, 0 Jan Karon Author Copy
3 The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James Bryce, Inspiration, Knowledge, Reflection., 0 James Bryce Politician · Northern Ireland Copy
4 When history looks back, it will prove what I’ll die knowing. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jack Kevorkian, Certainty, Legacy, Reflection., 0 Jack Kevorkian Copy
5 God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, J. I. Packer, Faith, Guidance, Reflection., 0 J. I. Packer Copy
6 Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Denial, Existentialism, Reflection., 0 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet · USA Copy
7 The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Connection, Friendship, Reflection., 0 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet · USA Copy
8 Life’s two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gordon Livingston, Curiosity, Decision-making, Reflection., 0 Gordon Livingston Copy
9 No fantasies, I don’t think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, George Michael, Contentment, Realization, Reflection., 0 George Michael Copy
10 Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Michael Hyatt, Impact, Influence, Reflection., 0 Michael Hyatt Leadership mentor Copy
11 This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Matsuo Basho, Mortality, Nature, Reflection., 0 Matsuo Basho Poet · Japan Copy
12 Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mary-Lou Weisman, Discovery, Escape, Reflection., 0 Mary-Lou Weisman Copy
13 Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Friedrich Schiller, Reflection., Regret, Time, 0 Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany Copy
14 The object of studying philosophy is to know one’s own mind, not other peoples. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Ralph Inge, Individuality, Reflection., Self-awareness, 0 William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England Copy
15 I don’t always like writing, but I very much like having written. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Gibson, Reflection., Satisfaction, Struggle, 0 William Gibson Author Copy
16 What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Liz Carpenter, Communication, Nostalgia, Reflection., 0 Liz Carpenter Journalist · USA Copy
17 God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, William Arthur Ward, Gratitude, Reflection., Time, 0 William Arthur Ward Writer · USA Copy
18 When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walter Scott, Loneliness, Loss, Reflection., 0 Walter Scott Writer · Scotland Copy
19 If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Luigi Pirandello, Morality, Reflection., 0 Luigi Pirandello Playwright · Italy Copy
20 Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Reality, Reflection., Transcendence, 0 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher · Austria Copy
21 Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we’d had. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Louise Hart, Healing, Parenthood, Reflection., 0 Louise Hart Psychologist Copy
22 Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Louise Colet, Decline, Reflection., Regret, 0 Louise Colet Poet · France Copy
23 O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Louise Bogan, Mortality, Movement, Reflection., 0 Louise Bogan Poet · USA Copy
24 If you get to it, and you cannot do it, then there you jolly well are, aren’t you? Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lord Buckley, Accountability, Perseverance, Reflection., 0 Lord Buckley Copy
25 If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn’t change a single thing. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Lisa Stansfield, Acceptance, Contentment, Reflection., 0 Lisa Stansfield Copy
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody. Augustus William Hare Author · England
The most beautiful thing in the world is to live each second as if it were your last. Vinicius de Moraes Poet · Brazil
