Reflection Quotes

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

Life can only be understood backwards.

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

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can't see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection.

Kids are like a mirror, what they see and hear they do. Be a good reflection for them.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

The dog is a reflection of your energy, of your behavior. You have to ask, 'What am I doing?' That's the right question to ask.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

Your world and everything in it is a reflection of your own mental attitude toward yourself.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

When will my reflection show who I am inside?

Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what you are in the process of becoming

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

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.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

Attitude is the reflection of a person, and our world mirrors our attitude.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

Or might the soul clone itself, create a perfect imitation of something yet to be defined? In this way, can a reflection be altered?

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.