Reflecting Quotes - Page 6

• I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spirit, Holy

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Wise, Acceptance, Journey

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• That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something...real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts...

  Jess C Scott

  Life, Real, Reflection

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)”, p.66, Jess C Scott

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• Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind that passes through the trees, alert to everything that is happening. Concentration excludes much, includes little. Awareness excludes nothing, includes all. Awareness is a state of no-mind. You are, yet you are not focused. You are just a mirror reflecting all, echoing all; see the beauty of it and the silence and the stillness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Wind

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• Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Clouds, Building, Poor

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• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Opportunity, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical computation, the result will appear most astonishing to those...not in the habit of reflecting how many of the mightiest of operations in nature are effected insensibly, without noise or disorder.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Rivers, Numbers

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• Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

  Eli Pariser

  Mirrors, Watches, Way

  "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

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• ... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

  David Hume

  Wise, Intelligent, Ideas

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption.

  Austin Ligon

  Growth, Cost, Grew

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• I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Thinking, Tragedy

  "Do We Achieve World Order Through Chaos or Insight". Interview With Uliane von Mittelstaedt, Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 13, 2014.

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• The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly
  themselves.

  Thomas Merton

  Relationship, Unconditional Love, Reflection

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

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• Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Obscure, Social

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Light, Air

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• The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.

  David Mixner

  Medicine, Numbers, People

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• A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light between their taught bio-morphic surfaces and reflecting the environment around them. During the day, the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and movement of people around them.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Simple, Light, People

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• One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Suffering

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• Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we enjoy reflecting on our experience of the teachings. Like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, the teachings of the dharma become clear.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Appreciation, Teaching, Reflection

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• Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Light, Body

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Thinking, Differences, Giving

  "Something About Shojo". Interview with Coco Masters, content.time.com. August 10, 2006.

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• A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

  Robert Reich

  Powerful, Government, Class

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• Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

  Herodotus

  Thinking, Reflecting Upon, Inspire

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• Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.

  David Holmgren

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Australia

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• It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Voice, People

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

  Madonna Kolbenschlag

  Soul, Testing, My Own

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