Quotes About Looking Glass Self

#1. Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

Philip Yancey

#2. To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Gregory Maguire

#3. The effects of her words stung me, and after she stole away I stood a long while before her looking glass, studying my profile, the line I cut in this world of men and ladies.

Patrick DeWitt

#4. I was trying to drown my sorrows," I explained, looking down into the bottom of my glass, "but my sorrows learned to swim.

Eliza Lentzski

#5. There is magic in motion. There is energy in change. There is something in all of us to make a difference in anyway, everyday.

Doug Brown

#6. It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

Gaston Bachelard

#7. I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Peter Ackroyd

#8. In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that the world keeps shifting so quickly under her feet that she has to keep running just to keep her position. This is our predicament with cancer: we are forced to keep running merely to keep still.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#9. The mirror done broke and your life looking back at you from them sharp glass pieces.

Rita Leganski

#10. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

Indiana Lang

#11. World - "You think in secret and it comes to pass, environment is but your looking glass." James Allen wrote those words

Bob Proctor

#12. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.

Gail Davis

#13. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

James Allen

#14. Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Richard Whately

#15. Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Being somebody's looking glass is not your job.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#17. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, it was an accident, but when she stepped through the looking glass, it was of her own free will, and a braver deed by far.

Salman Rushdie

#18. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

Jim Butcher

#19. In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass of water, remembering swimming in the summer, feeling the breeze. In this contemplation I observed that the self is more elusive than I thought.

Sakyong Mipham

#20. Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born.

Anthony Marais

#21. He answered his own question. He did not seem upset. He seemed puzzled, as if looking back at his past self and wondering how he could possibly have been so stupid.
You're nothing special.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#22. We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that

Doug Brown

#23. I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

James Goldman

#24. What do you mean, Phib? asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us, she saw - not herself, but the reflection of some pleasant image in her own brain.

Charles Dickens

#25. This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Malia Ann Haberman

#26. It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me ... I have done nothing in that direction since.

John Tenniel

#27. You're the one they're looking for," he said, with a curled lip. "You're the Glass Serpent.

Millicent Ashby

#28. The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus." - LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass

Connie Willis

#29. Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.

Simon Pegg

#30. The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#31. It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

John Sexton

#32. I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking glass.

James Joyce

#33. The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

#34. People who make their living looking into crystal balls are destined to eat a lot of broken glass.

Larry R. Williams

#35. There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

Napoleon Hill

#36. The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

Orison Swett Marden

#37. I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?

Frank Beddor

#38. there is no better looking glass than an old friend.

Philip Armour

#39. But I killed you," said Alyss.
Did you?" Redd turned to The Cat. "Why wasn't I informed?"
The Looking Glass Wars

Frank Beddor

#40. I had a small looking glass on the wall and I stood before it and gazed at my own reflection.

Philippa Gregory

#41. Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Mick Fleetwood

#42. A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

Matthew Sharpe

#43. The room boasted many luxurious perks: a narrow bed, a rotted writing table, a stained wall, and a warped looking glass dangling on a rusty hook. I wondered if Mr. Kent recommended this hellish place so I would hurry back to his home.

Tarun Shanker

#44. On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

Hobart Alter

#45. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman

#46. After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'"
-Dodge(obviously)

Frank Beddor

#47. I am out in public and using the phone. I am in a phone booth, got the phone in my hand and a man taps on the glass and says You using the phone? Nope, I'm superman, i am just looking for my costume. Here's your sign!

Bill Engvall

#48. The world is a looking glass. It gives back to every man a true reflection of his own thoughts. Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Gautama Buddha

#49. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

John Ringo

#50. It's funny. Looking back, none of it seems to matter now, those moments of yearning, craving to belong with people I thought mattered. No more fragments of glass, pieces of a broken mirror you can't put back together and wouldn't want to even if you could.

Rebecca Harris