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• Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Devotion, Identification, Overflow

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.3, Discovery House

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• I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

  David Banner

  America, Sick, Hip Hop

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• O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

  Euripides

  Women, Form, Nobility

  "Ion". Play by Euripides, circa 421-408 BCE.

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• If Dracula can’t see his reflection, how come his parting’s always neat?

  Karl Pilkington

  Neat, Parting, Ifs

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• People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.

  David Lynch

  Girl, Falling In Love, Home

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is the word yes so brief?
  it should be
  the longest,
  the hardest,
  so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
  so that upon reflection you could stop
  in the middle of saying it.

  Vera Pavlova

  Middle, Should, Hardest

  Vera Pavlova, “Why is the word YES so brief?”

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• A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.

  Charles Darwin

  Earthquakes, Ideas, Feet

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

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• Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Ocean, Color

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

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• The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

  Paul Cezanne

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.

  D'Angelo

  Music Is

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• But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

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• Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Night, Shining

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.558, Wordsworth Editions

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• How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Compassion, Mind

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• What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Who We Are, Embrace

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• Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

  Jennifer Worth

  Matter, Impossible, Quiet

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

  Ann Brashares

  Forget, Ifs

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.24, Penguin

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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reality, Glasses

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Color

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Shadow, Wonder, Sometimes

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• My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love Is, Valuable, Ought

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Block, Mirrors, Long

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• I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Elbows, Captains

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.120, Penguin

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• There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Vanity, Wish

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1676, Bantam

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• If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

  Erich Fromm

  Commitment, Self, Ego

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