Reflection Quotes - Page 32

• Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Trying, Dolls, Cracks

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• Rainbows introduce us to reflections
  of different beautiful possibilities
  so we never forget that pain and grief
  are not the final options in life.

  Aberjhani

  Beautiful, Pain, Grief

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths – just because they can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my Avengers idea that I made up myself.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Joss Whedon bares his teeth over new Buffy film" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2010.

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• A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

  Timothy Keller

  Years, Long, Doubt

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

  Germany Kent

  Media, Social, Responsible

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• A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Compassion, Return, Environment

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• Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.

  Sun Bu'er

  Cutting, Light, Long

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• I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Distance, Mirrors, Self

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• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Fans, Culture

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• Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Stress, Humility, Care

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• To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

  David Guterson

  Philosophy, Perspective, Persevere

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.105, A&C Black

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• The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Moving, Pride, Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Believe, Acceptance, Way

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saul Williams

  Giving, Hip Hop, Community

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.(...)
  No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can never be
  so, for this is an imperfect universe. The perfection isn't here,
  it is in the worlds beyond, and this is what we are trying to reach.

  Harold Klemp

  Teaching, Book, Perfection

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• It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

  Lord David Cecil

  Knows, Sermons

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• What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

  Sharon Gannon

  World

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• Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

  Widad Akrawi

  Compassion, Voice, Needs

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• This is the only real revelation — that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.

  Philip Appleman

  Atheist, Real, Dark

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• I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

  Meggie Royer

  Hate, Mirrors, Looks

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• Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Creativity, Discovery, Diversity

  Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

  Plato

  Impression, Contradictory, Ifs

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• Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Heart, Mouths, Conflict

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2016

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• Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Leader, Needs, Facts

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• The creative process, like a spiritual journey, is intuitive, non-linear, and experiential. It points us toward our essential nature, which is a reflection of the boundless creativity of the universe.

  John Daido Loori

  Spiritual, Creativity, Journey

  John Daido Loori (2007). “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life”, p.1, Ballantine Books

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