Top 100 Reflection Self Quotes
#1. 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
#2. You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
Shannon L. Alder
#3. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Werner Herzog
#7. Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
Paul Morabito
#8. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.
Margo T. Rose
#9. Begin to see the violence around you; begin to see the violence within you.
Bryant McGill
#10. When I look back and reflect even to this day I made the decision to stop feeling sorry for myself and to move forward even when I felt like I didn't want to
Shellie Palmer
#11. What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection.
Debasish Mridha
#12. With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
James Joyce
#15. The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart ...
John Geddes
#16. Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can't see.
Fennel Hudson
#17. Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us up.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Talking with Elaine like that, with no judgment from her or anything, seemed to bring my feelings more to the surface so I could look at them. I love times like that; you don't get many of them.
(Walker, in STOTAN!)
Chris Crutcher
#19. In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#20. Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.
Tyga
#21. If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?
Na'ama Yehuda
#22. Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.
Azar Nafisi
#24. He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself.
Doreen DeVore
#25. The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.
Alex Elle
#26. There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Frederick Lenz
#27. A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all ... but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#28. There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.
Lionel Suggs
#30. Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.
Naomi Wolf
#31. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.
Anthony Marais
#32. Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
Deepak Chopra
#33. The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
Fred Alan Wolf
#34. The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly - that is the anxiety; avoid the mirror! But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow, either. The challenge has to be taken.
Osho
#35. We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.
Nenia Campbell
#36. 3762
Hence the necessity of getting off the merry-go-round too figure out what is really going on and let your sad feelings tell their own sometimes weird, complex, and long-winded story.
Frederick Woolverton
#37. On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.
Theodor W. Adorno
#38. Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#39. Self-forgiveness is a daily practice of the humble, strong and mentally sane. It is an intentional preservation of inner-peace and a reflection of a healthy self-concept.
Shannon Tanner
#40. But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our
checks in the mail.
Eminem
#41. After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.
Jonathan Horton
#42. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#43. The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.
Robin Sharma
#44. When you hit 30, it's that time of self-reflection. Some people are a success. Some people feel like they haven't achieved what they wanted to. Some people are married, some have kids, some are still single.
Hayden Schlossberg
#45. But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
#46. The deeper you look into Truth; your reflection of self disappears.
Deborah Brodie
#47. Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#48. I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise
Steve Maraboli
#49. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
Ian McEwan
#50. Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
Clarice Lispector
#51. And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I have done since.
Tony Burgess
#52. It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.
Bud Harris
#53. Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.
Robert L. Rosen
#54. All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#55. Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#56. A different path of self-reflection is required if we are interested in the borders rather than the beliefs of Christianity. In my experience - in my conversations with "unbelieving neighbours" - I have learned that Christianity appears quite differently from the borders. Take,
Anthony Ledonne
#57. I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too.
Akshay Vasu
#58. The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
Edward De Bono
#59. And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.
Terence McKenna
#60. Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;
Frederick Douglass
#61. To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.
Ansel Adams
#62. We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.
Kirk J. Schneider
#64. I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort.
Maria Semple
#65. You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.
Sandra M. Michelle
#66. Life doesn't come with a remote control. If you don't like what's playing, get up and change the channel.
By unknown.
Lorelie Rozzano
#67. Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us.
Ilchi Lee
#68. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
#69. When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
Max Ernst
#70. To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
Ryuho Okawa
#71. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
Yusuf Islam
#73. I'm a work in progress, and I hope I will never be complete
Nick Frost
#75. Every person interprets the silence that surrounds him or her. The eternal silence of the universe that we exist in is terrifying because it forces each of to ask what our purpose is, why are we here, and what should I do?
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. Real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
Cameron Conaway
#78. We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.
Frederick Lenz
#79. For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.
Gene Saks
#80. These games inspire laughter, spontaneity, ensemble building, physical and vocal expression, concentration, self-discovery/reflection, self-esteem, and, ultimately, I believe, good health. They get adults, and teenagers too, playing again, which is no small feat.
Hannah Fox
#81. A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#82. The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. Practice honest self-reflection to learn and better who you are
Jerry Gladstone
#84. 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
#85. In an age that valued prolonged and detailed exposition, complexity, and repetition it was astonishing that Luther should have instinctively discerned the value of brevity.
Andrew Pettegree
#86. You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
Kamal Ravikant
#87. 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
#88. I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.
Meggie Royer
#89. We are more severe judges of our own acts ... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Anais Nin
#90. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
A.B. Simpson
#91. Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.
Frederick Lenz
#92. Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.
Leot Felton
#93. It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.
C. JoyBell C.
#94. What is incarnation? Incarnation is self-reflection. The universe that we are in is constructed, is a reflection of ourselves. We picked the dimension according to our self-reflection.
Frederick Lenz
#95. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
Diana Gabaldon
#96. I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.
Fennel Hudson
#97. Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
#98. The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.
Kamal Ravikant
#99. How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.
Stefanie Schneider
#100. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf
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