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• Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Life, Teaching, Serenity

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• Very often pessimistic people speak against their own desire. They want to undertake some work, and they say, 'I will do this, but I don't think I shall succeed in it.' Thus they hinder themselves in their path. Man does not know that every thought makes an impression on the consciousness and on the rhythm with which the consciousness is working. According to that rhythm that reflection will come true and happen; and a man proves to be his own enemy by his ignorance of these things.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

  Ernest Renan

  Men, Atheism, Heroism

  "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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• What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Powerful, Heart, Hands

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.57, Moody Publishers

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• Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

  Andrew Horning

  Government, Liberty

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• Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

  Christina Aguilera

  Life, Girl, Who I Am

  Song: Reflection, Album: Christina Aguilera

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• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Alfred Loisy

  Personality, Kind, Obvious

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• A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Negative, Moments, Force

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.275, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Speech, Fantasy

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Country, Two, Patriotism

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Character, Blow, Reactions

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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• I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Thinking

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Happiness, Self, Solitude

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• It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

  Vernon Howard

  Trying, Useless, World

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• In vain sedate reflections we would make
  When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

  Alexander Pope

  Knowledge, Half, Vain

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.181

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• One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Data, Profound

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• Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the existence of one object from another, unless they be connected together, either mediately or immediately... Here is a billiard ball lying on the table, and another ball moving toward it with rapidity. They strike; and the ball which was formerly at rest now acquires a motion. This is as perfect an instance of the relation of cause and effect as any which we know, either by sensation or reflection.

  David Hume

  Lying, Moving, Perfect

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• The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Dance, Dancing, Joy

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• Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Vision, Awe, Self Awareness

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• The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Wisdom, Yoga, Water

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• One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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