Reflection Quotes

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

Universe is an empty mirror. World is just the reflection of your thoughts.

Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, ...

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in...

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude o...

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

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

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

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede...

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second...

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

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

For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the m...

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like...

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see...

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissati...

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was sol...

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being ab...

He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a fa...

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

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

Cyrano: The leaves---Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes---they...

My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world...

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua...

In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dange...

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and ...

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a pictu...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy i...

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he w...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be,...

Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and...

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

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imagin...

As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anywa...

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but...

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are ...

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least un...

We don’t really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we’ve evolved for ...

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ...

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seem...

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have...

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the r...

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. Hi...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosoph...

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the gr...

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...

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

It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of th...

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this o...

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but...

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my ac...

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always t...

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflec...

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is n...

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its cou...

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best...

In each of the early surahs, God spoke intimately to the individual, often preferring to pose many o...

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliev...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in wh...

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked up...

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you,And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.