Reflection Quotes

You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror. What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

Believe in who you are, and trust in what you know is true. Your choices are reflections of the goodness within you.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.

Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

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

Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

Wisdom comes from reflection.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

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.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

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

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

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.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Praise is the reflection of virtue.