Top 200 Reflection Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

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2. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

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3. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

— Osho

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4. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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5. “We become what we think about.”

— Earl Nightingale

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6. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

— Rumi

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7. “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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8. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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9. “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— C.G. Jung

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10. “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

— Helen Keller

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11. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

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12. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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13. “You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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14. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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15. “Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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16. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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17. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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18. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

— Lewis B. Smedes

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19. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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20. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Awakening Quotes

21. “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

— Buddha

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22. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

— Steve Jobs

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23. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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24. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

— Rumi

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25. “Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wellness Quotes

26. “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; it makes us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.”

— Deepak Chopra

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27. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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28. “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”

— Deepak Chopra

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29. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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30. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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31. “Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Growth Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

32. “Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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33. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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34. “Make today worth remembering.”

— Zig Ziglar

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35. “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Experience Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes

36. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

37. “The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Quotes About Dreams, Spirituality Quotes

38. “Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Choices Quotes

39. “Live as though life were created for you.”

— Maya Angelou

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40. “What you resist, persists.”

— C.G. Jung

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41. “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

— Joseph Campbell

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42. “I have miles to go before I sleep...”

— Robert Frost

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43. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

— Albert Camus

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44. “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

45. “I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

46. “If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”

— Lao Tzu

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47. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

— Jim Rohn

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48. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

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49. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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50. “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

— Nelson Mandela

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