Top 100 Quotes About Reflection
#1. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#2. I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
a crop of reflections to be reaped
in a winter of thorn
when icebergs of illusion will melt
to be served at high tea
and the spaces between the poles pinned down
Nancy Peters
#3. Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.
A.W. Tozer
#4. Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.
Earl Nightingale
#5. Portraits I've done in the past I've always thought were a reflection of me.
Judy Dater
#6. It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more dollar damages accrue is a reflection of the greater amount of wealth we've created.
Jerry Taylor
#7. Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.
David Hume
#8. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
Aloe Blacc
#9. How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. What we are, we see the reflection in others.
Avijeet Das
#11. We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.
Marcia Conner
#12. Our external results are merely a reflection of our internal reality.
Joan Posivy
#13. Science is about recognizing patterns. [ ... ] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.
Christopher Knight
#14. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
Czeslaw Milosz
#15. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
Whitaker Chambers
#17. I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.
K. Martin Beckner
#18. Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.
L. Ron Hubbard
#19. So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.
S.M. Hulse
#20. Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.
Jeanette Winterson
#21. Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#22. No matter what you put into the journal, it becomes a reflection of who you are, who you think you are and who you want to be.
Eric M. Scott
#23. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
Soren Kierkegaard
#24. My head phones always allow me to listen to myself
Saahil Prem
#25. I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.
Melinda Clarke
#26. Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.
Henry Miller
#27. Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def
#28. Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking
Vasily Klyuchevsky
#29. You are my garland of love. I am your reflection of love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the
things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"
He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.
Georgette Heyer
#31. I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.
Shannon A. Thompson
#32. The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.
David Hume
#33. I couldn't not write. Sometimes I ask myself, How do people get through life without writing? I write to calm anxiety, to process pain. Writing to me is reflection.
Andrew Holleran
#34. I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.
Colleen Hoover
#35. If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?
David Hume
#36. Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.
Jody Gehrman
#37. The secret of happiness is to ignore your reflection in mirrors once you're over forty.
David Mitchell
#38. A smile is a reflection of your dancing heart and your joyful soul.
Debasish Mridha
#39. It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#40. Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.
Rashida Jones
#41. The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
Rumi
#42. Sides, i don't like the posed pics.They're not the real person.They're a reflection of what the person wants the world to think of her-not what she really is.
Rachel Hawthorne
#43. A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
James Wolcott
#44. I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.
Serj Tankian
#45. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
Jonathan Culler
#46. You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. They say you start weaving clearer, sharper memories after you've been to a place at least twice. Because then the reflection is more of validation. Let the rush come to you and let your senses be flushed the first time. There will be time for reflection after you've had your fill.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#48. It is strange," Mr. Willoughby said, and the air of reflection in his voice was echoed exactly by Jamie's, "but it was my joy of women that Second Wife saw and loved in my words. Yet by desiring to possess me - and my poems - she would have forever destroyed what she admired." Mr.
Diana Gabaldon
#49. Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#50. The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?
Lindsey Rietzsch
#52. Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith
#53. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#54. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
Wayne W. Dyer
#55. I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.
Bruce Springsteen
#56. He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection.
Confucius
#57. For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.
Susan Brackney
#58. The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.
Jon Spaihts
#59. The fact of the matter is that the world does not care about you or me, our hopes, our desires, or our dreams. And, the world of dreams, hopes, and desires that is constructed between our ears it is not necessarily a reflection of what is actually going on around us.
Miyamoto Musashi
#60. Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection.
Voltaire
#61. Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Novalis
#62. Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.
Dhani Jones
#63. I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Abraham Maslow
#65. Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance, with its golden reflection extending to the river water. Strange that I hadn't seen that before.
Patricia Mason
#66. Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.
Lady Gaga
#67. Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming
Esther Hicks
#68. Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
John Adams
#69. I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection
Rainer Maria Rilke
#70. Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.
Steven Wright
#72. Where have the years gone, Ruby Rose? Sometimes I have to stop and think about how old I am. When I wake up in the morning, before I move this tired old body or look in the blasted mirror, I swear I'm still a young man. It just feels like yesterday. I don't know how it's gone so fast.
Lea Davey
#73. I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else ... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.
Stephanie Klein
#74. Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.
Brian Herbert
#75. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.
Robert Aris Willmott
#76. As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Ernest Renan
#78. I could see the reflection of the moon on the water's surface, tantalisingly teasing me forward, that was my target ... swimming towards the moon and freedom. I could smell the brine and sense the power of the mass I was in, it engulfed me, yet I was one with it.
Stephen Richards
#79. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#80. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Bruce Lee
#81. We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
William J. Clinton
#82. He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.
R.D. Ronald
#83. I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
Gautama Buddha
#84. You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.
Matthew Norman
#85. What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#86. Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
Abdu'l- Baha
#88. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.
Richelle Thompson
#89. It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#90. I'm waiting for you," he murmured, smiling a slow, familiar grin that seemed to hint at a secret
between them.
And for the first time, Michele and the mirror reflection were in sync as they both whispered, "Me
too.
Alexandra Monir
#91. Calm - indeed the calmest - reflection might be better than the most confused decisions
Franz Kafka
#92. To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.
Billy Graham
#93. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#94. Well she was bright; and she danced ... And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.
Ford Madox Ford
#95. It was as if life elsewhere was a reflection through a dusty glass, and this was the real deal.
Chrystalla Thoma
#97. She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was.
Laura Moriarty
#98. 90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?
Sara Gruen
#99. It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.
Kat Lahr
#100. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
