Reflection Quotes - Page 3

That's how it goes these days, huh? Moving forward at the sounds of horns on highways, at the cue of traffic signals, turnstiles, tollbooths, ushered and rushed to the next stop on the itinerary, and there are days on the commuter train in the winter when it's got dark early and you can't see out because of the reflection and you might put down your paper or put aside your book and really look at yourself, because amid the noise and the smoke and the strangers and what's become of your life: there you are.

Wilton Barnhardt

drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves

Thich Nhat Hanh

In his life he too, like all people, had harboured ideas and dreams. Some he had fulfilled for himself; some had been granted to him. Many things had remained out of reach, or barely had he reached them than they were torn from his hands again. But he was still here. And in the mornings after the first snowmelt, when he walked across the dew-soaked meadow outside his hut and lay down on one of the flat rocks scattered there, the cool stone at his back and the first warm rays of sun on his face, he felt that many things had not gone so badly after all.

Robert Seethaler

A selfie is nothing more than just an external reflection of yourself

Munia Khan

I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection.

George R.R. Martin

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

James Joyce

For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down a man it glows inside him for a long time afterward. And that is not all. It is known that if a message is written with lemon juice on a clean sheet of paper there will be no sign of it. But if the paper is held for a moment to the fire then the letters turn brown and the meaning becomes clear. Imagine that the whisky is the fire and that the message is that which is known only in the soul of a man – then the worth of Miss Amelia's liquor can be understood. Things that have gone unnoticed, thoughts that have been harbored far back in the dark mind, are suddenly recognized and comprehended. A spinner who has thought only of the loom, the dinner pail, the bed, and then the loom again – this spinner might drink some on a Sunday and come across a marsh lily. And in his palm he might hold this flower, examining the golden dainty cup, and in him suddenly might come a sweetness keen as pain. A weaver might look up suddenly and see for the first time the cold, weird radiance of midnight January sky, and a deep fright at his own smallness stop his heart. Such things as these, then, happen when a man has drunk Miss Amelia's liquor. He may suffer, or he may be spent with joy – but the experience has shown the truth; he has warmed his soul and seen the message hidden there.

Carson McCullers

There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.

Henry Spencer Ashbee

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

Philip K Dick

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

Charles Mackay

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

Siobhan Dowd

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

Bryant McGill

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

Isobelle Carmody

When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.

Joel T. McGrath

I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around us is indeed a tremendous feat that, at some point or another, we must all undergo, alone yet together.

Kayla Severson

Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.

Akiroq Brost

As facing the sea reveals the skyand facing the sky reveals the seafacing my soul reveals your soul

Xiaobo Liu

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must always reflect only what we wish to see reflected within us.

Robin Sacredfire

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every word spoken is a reflection of your inner beliefs!

Harrish Sairaman

Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood!

Viorel Muha

When I look in the mirror,I see me.Who do you see?

Anthony T.Hincks

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

Sunday Adelaja

It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise.

Colleen Hoover

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.

Farshad Asl

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

Marie Lu

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

Sylvia Day

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

J.K. Rowling

Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.

Rick Riordan

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

D.H. Lawrence

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

Elizabeth George

Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many different ways. Yet the heart of an object or the essence of the heart can never be reflected. All faith and creativity is the hunger to cross over this frontier, it is the desire for pure and total encounter and belonging. Love is an affair between a reflection and its object.

John O'Donohue

That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.

R.D. Ronald

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

Francesca Lia Block

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

Tarjei Vesaas

Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.

Jody Gehrman

Water is the most versatile of all elements. It isn't afraid to burn in fire or fade into the sky, it doesn't hesitate to shatter against sharp rocks in rainfall or drown into the dark shroud of the earth. It exists beyond all eginnings and ends. On the surface nothing will shift, but deep in underground silence, water will hide and with soft fingers coax a new channel for itself, until stone gives in and slowly settles around the secret space. Death is water's close companion, and neither of them can be separated from us, for we are made of the versatilitiy of water and the closeness of death. Water doesn't belong to us, be we belong to water: when it has passed through our fingers and pores and bodies, nothing separates us from earth.

Emmi Itäranta

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

Ann Brashares

Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.

Joel T. McGrath

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.

R.D. Ronald

I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see.

Nina LaCour

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

Umberto Eco

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

John Christopher

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

Barack Obama

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Agatha Christie

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

Yvonne Woon

Disrespect for life is a direct reflection of violating the laws of the kingdom of love

Sunday Adelaja

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

Unarine Ramaru

There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking.

Saahil Prem

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.

Samuel Beckett

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

Katherine McIntyre

...reflection can transform something familiar.

Diane L. Dunton

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Michel de Montaigne

Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

R.D. Ronald

Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face. Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.

Kristen Callihan

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