+160 Short reflections that will make you think

Many times we are lost and we do not know what we want in different areas, such as love, studies or our life in general. It also happens that there are times when we have misconceptions about something, such as the aforementioned topics. Anyway, in many cases what we need is to think and reflect on it, and the best way to do it is through short reflections of famous people that surely they went through the same thing or that they see life from another perspective; As someone once said: if you can't change your life, then change the way you see it.

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Next we will present you the largest list of reflections and short thoughts that you will find on the internet. In it you can see that we have selected famous people from history and other famous people today; as well as including images designed for some of the most significant reflections for us.

• The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them. - Ernest Hemingway.
• Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not looking for it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity. - Krishnamurti.
• A true friend is someone who comes when everyone else leaves, and stays when everyone else has disappeared. - Anonymous.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for that is precisely what he will get. -Benjamin Franklin.
• Sometimes the last key is the one that opens the door. - Anonymous.
• When one of the doors of happiness closes us, another opens. But we often stare at the closed door for so long that we don't see the open door. -Helen Keller.
• Money is a means, not an end. - Anonymous.
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Reflecting is wise. On a daily basis we make many decisions and we do not stop to think if we have done well or if we are making mistakes. In addition, we also waste a lot of time fighting for things that do not really matter that much, and we put aside others that we should value more. - Anonymous.
• We build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Isaac Newton.
• We grow old when nostalgia gets in the way of hope. - Anonymous.
• Do not judge people by how they are, because in that personality there is a story behind that justifies it. - Anonymous.
• The day that you learn to forgive your own mistakes, you will be able to forgive the one who has hurt you the most, and you will understand that perhaps you did more damage and that someone has not forgiven you yet— Anonymous.
• Don't swear during prosperity, don't make decisions during grief, and don't answer during anger. - Anonymous.
• It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to be silent.
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix.
• Friendship improves happiness and reduces sadness, because through friendship, joys are doubled and problems are divided. - Anonymous.
• An optimistic person when facing a problem knows how to separate the part that benefits him, leaving aside the one that harms him. - Anonymous.
• There is a way to know if a man is honest. ask him. If he says yes, you will know that he is a scoundrel. - Groucho Marx.

• Being in control of your life and having real expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to managing stress, which is perhaps the most important ingredient for a happy, healthy, and rewarding life. - Marilu Henner.
• Things do not happen. Things get done. - John F. Kennedy.
• If your eyes don't see it, don't let your mouth make it up. - Anonymous.
• Pain counts the hours; pleasure forgets them. - Anonymous.
• Reading is a brush for the mind. - Anonymous.
• A fanatic is someone who cannot change his mind, but cannot change the subject either. —W. Churchill
• If someone judges your way, lend them your shoes. - Anonymous.
• If you do not learn to trust others, it will be difficult for you to get them to trust you. - Anonymous.
• What you do for yourself disappears when you are gone, but what you do for others remains your legacy. - Kalu Ndu
• Never act without thinking. - Buddha.
• Life is not measured by the times you breathe, but by the moments that take your breath away. - Anonymous.
• A minute on your feet is worth more than a lifetime on your knees. - Anonymous.
• Failure is simply the opportunity to start over, this time smarter. - Henry Ford.
• What you achieve when you reach your goals is not as important as what you become when you achieve your goals. —Henry David Thoreau.
• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain.
• Reflect for as long as you need, but act as fast as you can. - Anonymous.
• It is not possible to meditate if you end each day slamming the door. - Anonymous.
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; there is no need for complicated philosophies. Only our brain, our brain is our temple; philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama.
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be made or touched, they must be felt with the heart. - Hellen Keller.
• It is easier to hurt a loved one than a feared one.

• What does not kill me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Look 2 times to see what is fair, do not look once to see what is beautiful. —Henry F. Amiel
• It is better to be alone than in bad company. -George Washington.
• A big heart gets filled with little. - Antonio Porchia.
• Words tend to be put where ideas are lacking. "Goethe."
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw.
• What you see is not what matters, it is what you see. - Henry David Thoreau.
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. "Thomas Jefferson."
• There is a motive force more powerful than steam, electricity, and atomic energy: the will. -Albert Einstein.
• A resounding no is better than a yes with buts. —Ale Cerón
• A worthy person prefers to live a second on his feet, to crawl his whole life on his knees. - Anonymous.
• The opportunity does not appear in the daily routine, nor to those who see life in gray, it is like a frank smile on an unknown face. - Anonymous.
• If you want to be rich, don't focus on making money, but on decreasing your greed. - Anonymous.
• There is always tomorrow and life gives us another chance to do things right, but in case I'm wrong and today is all we have left, I would like to tell you how much I love you, that I will never forget you. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Time only buries what the heart has already taken for dead. - Anonymous.
• The less you need, the richer you will be. - Anonymous.
• Freedom is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. "George Orwell."
• To change your life on the outside you must change on the inside. The moment you get ready to change, it is amazing how the universe begins to help you and brings you what you need. - Louise Hay.
• If you are going to point, try to keep your hands clean. - Anonymous.
• When you get old, you will not regret what you did, but what you did not do. - Anonymous.

• When the eyes see what they never saw, the heart feels what it never felt. - Anonymous.
• If you want to be proud of yourself, you have to do things that you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions. - Oseola McCarty.
• Suffering can make you nobler or harder. - Anonymous.
• Only through suffering experiences can we strengthen the soul, clarify our vision, gain inspiration for our ambitions, and achieve success — Anonymous.
• 20 years later you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. Let go of the ties. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the favorable winds in your sails. Explore. It sounds. Discover. - Mark Twain.
• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who retains the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka.
• When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix.
• The only limits to our achievements tomorrow will be our doubts today. - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• You have to know how to deal with problems if you want to be happy, because there will always be someone who will haunt you. - Anonymous.
• The wisest know how to think what they say, and meditate whether to say what they think. - Anonymous.
• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; there is no need for complicated philosophies. Only our brain, our brain is our temple; philosophy is kindness. -Dalai Lama.
• Most successful people have achieved their greatest successes one step after their greatest failures. - Napoleon Hill.
• The worst mistakes arise from our judgment. - Anonymous.
• The friend is the one who leaves the most emptiness when he leaves. - Anonymous.
• Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway.
• There are those who think that money is everything, that's why they lower themselves to anything to get rich. - Anonymous.
• A lie can save your present, but doom your future. - Anonymous.
• Just do what needs to be done. It may not be happiness. But it is greatness. - George Bernard Shaw.
• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present will surely miss the future. - John F. Kennedy.
• who have experienced it the least; and those who have lived it are usually unable to meditate on it— José Ortega Y Gasset.

• The worst enemy you can have is yourself.
• To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do, it travels in a circle and comes back to you many other times. Life is not about how much you get, but what you become. - Dennis Gaskill.
• I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar.
• Living beings are very rare. We never asked to be born, we did not learn to live, and we will never accept to die. - Anonymous.
• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon.
• The worst lie is hidden under the silence. - Anonymous.
• He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell.
• Reflecting and dialoguing, man is able to untangle all the knots. - Anonymous.
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy.
• Happiness is not something already done. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama.
• Anything you say will be misinterpreted. - Anonymous.
• Why are you waiting impatiently for things? If they are useless for your life, it is also useless to wait for them. If they are necessary, they will come and they will come on time —Amado Nervo.
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu.
• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. "Henry Ford."
• It is easier to find male volunteers to die than to find those who are willing to bear pain patiently. - Julius Caesar.
• Love how you want to be loved. - Anonymous.
• Poor black cat, who only meets wretches! - Anonymous.
• The roots of the tree grow thanks to the storm. - Anonymous.
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• We love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. - Friedrich Nietzsche.

• A man does not die when his body leaves us, but when there are no more memories about him. - Anonymous.
• The duty of the youth is to challenge corruption. - Kurt Cobain.
• If you want success by your side, you have to think, give yourself as many opportunities as you need and get rid of the fear of failure. - Anonymous.
• Making the worst mistake is the best lesson you can take. - Anonymous.
• Learning without thinking is like adding without numbers. - Anonymous.
• Thinking is moving in infinity. - HD Lacordaire.
• Find the right people and then grow old together. - Anonymous.
• Man is a king when he dreams, and a beggar when he reflects.
• You can complain that the rose has thorns, or be glad that the thorns are accompanied by roses. - Anonymous.
• Keep your face in the sun and you won't be able to see a shadow. - Hellen Keller.
• The liar has two evils: that neither believes nor is believed. —Baltasar Gracián
• Being prepared for war is one of the most effective ways to preserve the peace. -George Washington.
• Don't let what really interests you go away. Value what you have before time teaches you to appreciate what you lost. - Anonymous.
• Hope is the first reason to give everything. - Anonymous.
• By listening with our ears we trust our surroundings; listening with the heart, we trust ourselves. - Anonymous.
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw.
• A good friend knows everything about you and is still your friend. - Anonymous.
• Never let yourself be secluded in silence. Never let yourself be the victim. Do not accept the definition of the life of others; define yourself. "Harvey Fierstein."
• The order of the lies does not alter the disappointment. - Anonymous.
• By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one will unfailingly reach one's chosen goal or destination. - Christopher Columbus.

• Where there is a television on, surely there is someone who is not reading. - Anonymous.
• Every morning is a reason to enjoy a new day. - Anonymous.
• In true love, no one is in charge; both obey. - Anonymous.
• Few will have the greatness to change history on our own, but each of us can work to change a small part of the events, and in total, all those acts will write the history of this generation. —Robert Kennedy.
• I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go to another room and read a book. - Groucho Marx.
• Your life is not so determined by what life brings you as by your attitude towards it; not so much because of what happens to you as because of the way you look at what happens to you. - Khalil Gibran.
• Obstacles are the fearful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. "Henry Ford."
• Life reaches its fullness when you separate yourself from the material to contemplate intellectual beauty. - Anonymous.
• If a friend from the past is no longer in the present, it is for a reason. - Paulo Coelho.
• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Hellen Keller.
• The time you enjoy wasting has not been wasted. - John Lennon.
• It is crazy to love, unless you love yourself madly. - Anonymous.
• Love is always shy before beauty, while beauty is always after love. - Anonymous.
• Thinking of my happiness, I remembered you. - Anonymous.
• With silence we escape from problems, but with dialogue we acquire the courage to face them. - Anonymous.
• With the new day come new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
• In this life, money is not important when there is health and love. - Anonymous.
• Your best teacher is your biggest failure. - Anonymous.

• The fear of loss will make you lose the most beautiful thing. Paulo Coelho.
• We can do little alone; together we can do a lot. - Hellen Keller.
• Don't cry: you can learn something good from bad and negative. - Anonymous.
• If you cheat on me once, it's your fault; if you two cheat on me, it's my fault. - Anonymous.
• Luck is the result of the sum of attempts, failures and perseverance. - Anonymous.
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; great minds argue with people. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
• With many rivers, with few I cry. - Anonymous.
• It is not true that people stop chasing dreams because they get old, they get old because they stop chasing their dreams. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Reflection is the best antidote to problems. - Anonymous.
• The elevator to success is not available. You have to use the stairs, one by one. - Joe Girard.
• If I have seen further than others, it is by rising on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton.
• The worst deception lies in yourself. - Anonymous.
• The most cunning does not persist, nor the most robust, nor the most savvy. He who knows how to adapt to the evolution of the world persists. - Anonymous.
• You must understand the whole of life, not just a small part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the heavens, that is why you must sing, dance, write poems, suffer and understand, for all this is life. - Krishnamurti.
• Don't love, if you don't love madly.
• The life of the human being is like the grass of the field that blooms in the morning, but when the afternoon comes its beauty withers and everything disappears. - Zantiago.
• When the game is over, the tokens are returned to their box. - Anonymous.
• Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't want. - Will Rogers.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths. - Julius Caesar.
• The dog returns to his vomit, and the fool returns to his folly. - Biblical proverb.
• We do not act correctly because we have virtue or excellence, but we have them because we have acted correctly. - Aristotle.kwe Kalu.

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