Top 200 Reflection Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

— Confucius

102. “As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself.”

— Haruki Murakami

103. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

— Joseph Campbell

104. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

105. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

106. “If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?”

— Ray Lewis

107. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”

— Nicole Sobon

108. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

109. “The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

110. “The journey is the destination.”

— Dan Eldon

111. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

112. “We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.”

— Rumi

113. “Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.”

— Marcus Aurelius

114. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

115. “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

116. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

117. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

118. “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

— Laozi

119. “In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

— Marcus Aurelius

120. “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

— Marcus Aurelius

121. “The master observes the world but trusts his inner vision. He allows things to come and go. He prefers what is within to what is without.”

— Lao Tzu

122. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

— Steve Maraboli

123. “Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”

— Stephen R. Covey

124. “Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.”

— Saint Augustine

125. “Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”

— C.G. Jung

126. “To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.”

— Thomas Merton

127. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

128. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone

129. “Life is beautiful in all its colors, even the darker ones, they’re here for a reason.”

— Chris Martin

130. “Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.”

— Baltasar Gracián

131. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

— Rumi

132. “The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.”

— Marianne Williamson

133. “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

— Henry David Thoreau

134. “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

— Confucius

135. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”

— Buddha

136. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

137. “The things of nature are the Lord’s silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.”

— Ellen G. White

138. “Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

139. “Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?”

— Osho

140. “If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

— John C. Maxwell

141. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

142. “Don’t LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

143. “You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

— Rumi

144. “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

145. “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

146. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

147. “In your quietest moments appear your most true thoughts.”

— Robin S. Sharma

148. “The best things in life aren’t things.”

— John Ruskin

149. “Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”

— Rumi

150. “Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda