Reflection Quotes
Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.
Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.
The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.
Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.
And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.
Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection.
You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.
The woman is the reflection of her man. If you love her to the point of madness, she will become it
Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.