Quotes about reflect
reflection thinking giving
I just think that also controlling women is a way to control the whole narrative. And so I think when you've oppressed a people for a really long time, you're terrified to give them any power because they may have some reflection of how horrible you've been and you're terrified of being treated that way. All that we want is to be our best selves, but that's hard for them to understand. Lizz Winstead
reflection thinking mirrors
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry! Martin Gardner
reflection bullshit personality
I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be. Nick Hornby
reflection mirrors different
That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors. John Green
reflection years glasses
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. Mary Wortley Montagu
reflection facts married
The one thing that reconciles me to the fact of being a woman is the reflection that it delivers me from the necessity of being married to one.
reflection faithful one-day
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. Marshall McLuhan
reflection world philosopher
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. Marion Zimmer Bradley
reflection thinking long
The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God. Oswald Chambers
reflection devotion identification
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.
reflection looks way
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. Michel de Montaigne
reflection perspective world
From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events. Marianne Williamson
reflection thinking giving
The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.
reflection levels form
Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.
reflection today glee
Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
reflection who-i-am public-image
My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. Mario Balotelli
reflection knows
I don't know which me that I love, got no reflection. Marilyn Manson
reflection age germany
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. George Santayana
reflection self torn-apart
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves. Neal Shusterman
reflection life-is
Your life is not about what you are doing. Yet, it is true that what you are doing is often a reflection of what your life is about. Neale Donald Walsch
reflection order decision
The best way to create a purposeful life is to allow the soul's decision to precede the body's action. One does not do something in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, therefore, does certain things in certain ways. The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being.
reflection energy strange
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
reflection mirrors self-improvement
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection. Jorge Luis Borges
reflection government liberty
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience. James Madison
reflection views europe
Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a wicked deed.' 'Excellent!' exclaimed Stas, 'and what is a good one?' This time the answer came without any reflection: 'If Kali takes away the cow of somebody else, that is a good deed.' Stas was too young to perceive that similar views of evil and good deeds were enunciated in Europe not only by politicians but by whole nations. Henryk Sienkiewicz
reflection president elements
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement. Henry Clay
reflection confusion world
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles
reflection thinking mirrors
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
reflection design creative
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
reflection action duty
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
reflection desire example
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
reflection museums drs
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape Oliver Sacks
reflection compassion knives
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.