Top 200 Reflection Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

152. “So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God.”

— Dan Millman

153. “Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.”

— Augusto Boal

154. “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

155. “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

— Mother Teresa

156. “Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.”

— Ram Dass

157. “Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”

— Marianne Williamson

158. “There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”

— Rumi

159. “Live life as if it’s rigged in your favor.”

— Rumi

160. “I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.”

— Mark Twain

161. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

— Eckhart Tolle

162. “You are not a problem that needs solving.”

— Eckhart Tolle

163. “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

164. “The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.”

— Kevin Hart

165. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

166. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

167. “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.”

— Paulo Coelho

168. “All that I seek is already within me.”

— Louise Hay

169. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

— John Lennon

170. “The adventure of life is to learn...”

— William Arthur Ward

171. “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”

— Thomas Merton

172. “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”

— Henry David Thoreau

173. “Tell your story with your whole heart.”

— Brené Brown

174. “Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”

— Aaron Swartz

175. “Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.”

— Napoleon Hill

176. “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

— Cesare Pavese

177. “We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.”

— Stephen R. Covey

178. “When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

179. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

— Peter F. Drucker

180. “You can’t move forward until you look back.”

— Cornel West

181. “Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

182. “Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

183. “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

184. “Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very second.”

— Greg McKeown

185. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

186. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”

— Stephen R. Covey

187. “We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Joan Didion

188. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

— Paulo Coelho

189. “If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”

— Rumi

190. “Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.”

— Helen Keller

191. “Happiness is an inside job.”

— William Arthur Ward

192. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.”

— Golda Meir

193. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

194. “Life is God’s gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

— A. R. Bernard

195. “It wasn’t until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

196. “When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

— Paulo Coelho

197. “Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

— Benjamin Franklin

198. “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

199. “Rest and be thankful.”

— William Wordsworth

200. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain