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• By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

  Edward Abbey

  Heartache, Joy, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Water, Gold

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Demand, Chess, Serious

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• Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Real, Infinity

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• We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Time's increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirror's Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Moving, Mirrors, Hands

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• Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

  Richard L. Evans

  Photography, Eye, Men

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• An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Imagination, Obstacles

  John Dewey (2015). “How We Think: Top American Authors”, p.87, 谷月社

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• I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Action, Should

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• And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

  Plato

  Stars, Plato, Men

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• Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

  William O'Rourke

  Regret, Emotional, Events

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• If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.

  Duncan Trussell

  Different Universes, People, Judgement

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• Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year.

  James A. Murphy III

  Gratitude, Memories, Holiday

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• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  David Loy

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• All this knowledge of the objective world is of no value in comparison to having a little glimpse of the inner sky and its beauty - its sunrises and sunsets, its days and nights, its blue sky and its stars. The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Stars, Real

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• In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Passion, Men, Two

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.93, Vintage

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• A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Regret, Prayer, Bitter

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• Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

  Vasily Klyuchevsky

  Sports, Clever, Thinking

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• Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

  Esther Hicks

  Truth, Lost Love, Law Of Attraction

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. (suicide note)

  Wendy O. Williams

  Suicide, Believe, Suicidal

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• The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.

  Wendy O. Williams

  Believe, Suicidal, Thoughtful

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• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.135, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• 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

  Sports, Perseverance, Successful

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• Abundance is a state of mind, more than a reflection of wealth.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Mind, Wealth

  Judith Orloff, M.D. (2015). “The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being”, p.120, Harmony

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• My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'

  Jason Segel

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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