Reflection Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Self Esteem, Mirrors, Looks

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• No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Cassius

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.336, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

  Theodor Adorno

  Mean, Self, Knowing

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.50, Verso

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• My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Self, Anxiety

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Maturity, Long, Childhood

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Mirrors

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Levels, Form, Our Thoughts

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• Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Hammers

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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• The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit.

  Noam Chomsky

  Terrible Events, Quests, Way

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.55, City Lights Books

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• In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

  Angeles Arrien

  Sweet, Knowing, Silence

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• I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

  Alan Lightman

  Technology, Thinking, Quality

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• I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Order, Retrospect

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• No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Heart, Different

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• And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Play, People

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Endless Journey

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Secret, Wells

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• Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.  When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Ego, Sometimes

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.121, Penguin

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• Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

  Giambattista Vico

  Race, Class, Common Sense

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.27, Cornell University Press

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• The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Believe, Reality, Media

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Natural, States, Connected

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

  Sophocles

  Liars, Lying, Men

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• The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, World, Kind

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• The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Clouds, Long, Demand

  James Anthony Froude (1914). “Short studies on great subjects”

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• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Ideas

  "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".

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• History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Recognition, Language

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