Reflection Quotes - Page 29

• On her Slave For You video: It's a very sensual video so I thought it was a good reflection of the song. My Mum thought it was... different.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Sensual, Different

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• There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Simple, Feelings

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• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  Huston Smith

  Plato, Ordinary, Caves

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• When will my reflection show who I am inside?

  Hua Mulan

  Who I Am, Shows

  "Fictional character: Mulan". "Mulan", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

  Bobby Allison

  Careers, Hills, Pleasure

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• It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.

  Oscar Milosz

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Hands

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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, People, Common

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• It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.

  Daron Malakian

  Love Is, Thinking, People

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• As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

  William Cronon

  Mirrors, Desire, Facts

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• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Years, Ideas, Study

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.17

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• We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.

  Naum Gabo

  Plato, Reality, Creative

  Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.

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• One way of celebrating the Solstice is to consider it a sacred time of reflection, release, restoration, and renewal.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Restoration, Sacred

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• Woodcutter. Cut my shadow from me. Free me from the torment of being without fruit. Why was I born among mirrors? Day goes round and round me. The night copies me in all its stars. I want to live without my reflection. And then let me dream that ants and thistledown are my leaves and my parrots.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dream, Stars, Cutting

  Federico García Lorca, “The Song Of The Barren Orange Tree”

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• The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Simple, Glasses, Psychology

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• Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Circles, Self

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspiring, Looks, World

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• Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.

  Christopher West

  Love Is, Catholic, Faithful

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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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