Reflection Quotes

Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

Where I come from your truck is a reflection of who you are.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Judas is a reflection of anyone who ends up rejecting Jesus. It's a tragic story?not something to shake your finger at, but something to be sad about.

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!