Reflecting Quotes - Page 11

• O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

  Rumi

  Happiness, Happy, Reflection

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• The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Views, Media, Corporations

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• Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Monsters, Fiction

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Pain, Fighting

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• Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

  Harriet Lerner

  Jobs, Children, Reflecting Back

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• Worship starts with seeing something great and then reflecting it to the world. Let's see God so we can reflect God.

  Louie Giglio

  World, Worship, Seeing

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.

  Christopher McDowell

  Mother, Teacher, Garden

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• Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means.

  David Malouf

  Art, Spring, Mean

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.60, Random House

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• Whatever God's reasons for such diversity, creativity, and sophistication in the universe, on earth, and in our own bodies, the point of it all is His glory. God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.

  Francis Chan

  Art, Creativity, Diversity

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.18, David C Cook

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• The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities - e.g. science, art, religion - is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise... a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.

  Stephen Spender

  Art, Loneliness, Mean

  "Life and the Poet". Book by Stephen Spender, 1942.

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• Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Divine Beauty, Clay

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• Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
  it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
  and the ultimate grand design of creation.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spiritual, Design, Path

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• The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Mind, Stopping

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• I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Reading, Individual, Complexity

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• I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Father, Government

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Do not reflect on the meaning of the word; thinking and reflecting must cease, as all mystical writers insist. Simply "sound" the word silently, letting go of all feelings and thoughts.

  Willigis Jager

  Letting Go, Thinking, Feelings

  Willigis Jager (1994). “Contemplation: A Christian Path”, Triumph Books

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• I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspiration, Mirrors, Effort

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.114, Penguin

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• Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

  Suzanne Vega

  Writing, Issues, People

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• Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Distance, Science

  SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1952). “MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OPTICS”

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Countenance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

  Charles Darwin

  Might, Facts, Made

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• The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Mirrors, Color, Brilliant

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• Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.

  Hu Jintao

  Spiritual, Bridges, People

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• Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light via differential absorption and reflection. Call this reflected quality 'luminance' and measure it in millilamberts. This measure is as real and present as height, breadth, depth; and I find the phenomenon equally sumptuous and convincing. . . . Painted light, not color, not form, not perspective, or line, not image, or words, or equations, is painting. I make paintings which do not represent light, they are light.

  Jo Baer

  Real, Reflection, Light

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