Top 100 Quotes About Reflection
#1. Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions.
Debasish Mridha
#2. She sang in harmony. Not, of course, with her reflection in the glass, because that kind of heroine will sooner or later end up singing a duet with Mr. Bluebird and other forest creatures and then there's nothing for it but a flamethrower.
Terry Pratchett
#3. Trust is like a mirror; once its broken, you can glue it back together, but you can still see the cracks in that motherfucker's reflection.
Jessica N. Watkins
#4. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Paul The Apostle
#5. The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#6. Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.
Guillaume Canet
#7. Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Eugenio Montale
#8. This is where I will shine. This is where my father would have cried, clasped me to his bosom and muttered, "my daughter, my darling daughter. I know thee, because you are a reflection of me." (Don't ask me where I get this shit. I'm just THAT worldly.)
Nina Beck
#9. Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.
Sonu Nigam
#10. [E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and ... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence." I continued. "The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.
Rasmenia Massoud
#12. It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.
John Quincy Adams
#13. They only babble who practise not reflection.
Edward Young
#14. For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.
Tom Stoppard
#15. Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#16. Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#17. What is being born is a new consciousness and, as its inevitable reflection, a new world. This is also foretold in the New Testament Book of Revelation: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
Eckhart Tolle
#18. Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
Rob Bell
#19. The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
Victor Hugo
#20. More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.
Albert Einstein
#21. The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human - at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.
Thomas Berry
#22. While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ...
Fanny Burney
#23. Self-confidence is a reflection of love for your self.
Julianne Peyo
#24. Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I looked for a scrape in my reflection and then, meeting my own eyes, stood for a sec and tried to figure, like all girls in all mirrors everywhere, the difference between lover and slut.
Daniel Handler
#26. Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .
Simon Blackburn
#27. Poets, prophets and reformers are all picture-makers -- and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction,
Frederick Douglass
#28. Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
Meher Baba
#29. History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its deep mysterious waters. Many of us drown in it just like the mythological Narcissus, whose infatuation with his own beauty was stronger than his survival instincts.
Yanko Tsvetkov
#30. Practice honest self-reflection to learn and better who you are
Jerry Gladstone
#31. Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
James F. Cooper
#32. The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.
Frans De Waal
#33. If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth.
Joseph Campbell
#35. When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.
Robert M. Pirsig
#36. To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
Teju Cole
#37. As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.
William Cronon
#38. Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come.
- On Self-Reflection -
Kentetsu Takamori
#39. An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
Ramana Maharshi
#40. The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.
Marty Natalegawa
#41. The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#42. Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.
Donald Kuspit
#43. 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
#44. The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#46. Your true intentions is a reflection of your character.
Okisha Jackson
#47. I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire
I admit, a natural one for the most part
to exterminate your fellows.
Georgette Heyer
#48. When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.
Anita Moorjani
#50. To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.
Anna Sui
#51. Are you scared? I understand. The first time I saw my reflection in the mirror, even I was frightened by how BIG my reflection was.
Atsushi Ohkubo
#52. If our dreams are a reflection of our thoughts, then surely, our life is the foundation of our soul.
Robert Gibson
#53. If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.
Luc De Clapiers
#54. I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
Antony Gormley
#55. Happiness is a reflection of how you perceive the moment
Jane Emery
#56. I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.
Anna Akhmatova
#57. Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
Shane Koyczan
#58. At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.
Lionel Suggs
#59. A selfie is nothing more than just an external reflection of yourself
Munia Khan
#60. I didn't even get to the end of the block before I had to stop. As I clutched my knees and wheezed, I caught my reflection in a car window. My face was a violent shade of Call the Ambulance red. My chest heaved like a monstrous jelly.
Shauna Reid
#61. My reflection tells one story.
My heart, a different one.
The difference is,
hearts don't lie.
Mirrors do.
Lisa Schroeder
#62. When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.
Richard Branson
#63. Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.
Idries Shah
#64. On reflection,' Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, 'this wasn't one of your better plans.
Chris Wooding
#65. Like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.
Leah Wilson
#66. As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#67. Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Charles Caleb Colton
#68. I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.
Patricia Briggs
#69. Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.
Tony Robbins
#70. We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#71. Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.
Charlotte Pearson
#72. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.
Kate Madison
#74. Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
Haruki Murakami
#75. I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
Lauren Oliver
#76. Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.
Frederick Lenz
#77. I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.
Meggie Royer
#78. Abandon perfection
Welcome reflection
Nurture connection
Offer protection
Emilie Richards
#79. I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. With a sigh, Lilly sank down on a small Louis XV stool and looked up through the window at the sky. Snow had been falling incessantly for days. Her gaze fell on the reflection of her face in the shiny polished side of a little cupboard that belonged to her growing army of unsold items.
Corina Bomann
#81. I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
#82. There's no use dwelling on the things you could have changed. Believe me. Too much reflection on all the could-haves and should-haves will only hold you in your past.
Karina Halle
#83. A reflection of
their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.
Sherry Thomas
#84. There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ...
Wallis Simpson
#85. And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.
Vicki Pettersson
#86. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
Jim Lee
#87. Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.
Brian Tracy
#88. And me happiest when I compose poems:
Love, power, the huzza of battle
are something, are much:
yet a poem includes them like a pool
water and reflection.
Irving Layton
#89. Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
Alan Cohen
#90. A child's behavior we see on the surface is the reflection of the feelings that are rooted underneath. We can use topical treatments to try to shape what the behavior looks like, but if we really want things to change, we need to address the roots. Nourish the roots, see the growth.
Kelly Bartlett
#91. When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.
Jeff Bezos
#93. I found myself, unbidden, thinking of the holy fools in the old story, the ones who went fishing in the lake for the moon, with nets, convinced that the reflection in the water was nearer and easier to catch than the globe that hung in the sky.
Neil Gaiman
#94. How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life
financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
Suze Orman
#95. Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
Horace Walpole
#96. Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work.
Jason E. Hodges
#97. Faith is the absence of peace, and reflection of fear.
Lionel Suggs
#98. A heartbeat without anything to support
A body that fears its own warmth
You who hates their own reflection
Are you unable to face forward anymore?
Tiffany Fulton
#99. It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
