Reflection Quotes And Sayings

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“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet ‘Heavenly Father‘ is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”
– Criss Jami

“What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.”
– Victor Hugo

“Oh yes. It’s open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there’s no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They’ll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,’ He added mournfully.”
– Isobelle Carmody

“Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.”

– Thomas Hughes

“Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.”
– Confucious

“the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart…”
– John Geddes

“It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.”

– Michelle Shen

“Wisdom is the fruits of reflection…”
– Gino Norris

“I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn’t regret any of it.”
– Shannon A. Thompson

“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years’ spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts. All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in the company of subversive writers whose jibes and violence of speech set up a ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings.”
– James Joyce

“Everything needs love… and everything you do or don’t do is a reflection of how you love you!”
– Sanjo Jendayi

“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”
– Ann Brashares

“Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.”
– Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still…All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass…There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.”
– George Macdonald

“…that icy glass reduces your beauty – dims your fire – let me be your mirror…”
– John Geddes

“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one’s self?”
– Edith Wharton

“I couldn’t imagine that I’d ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”
– Sylvia Day

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
– R.D. Ronald

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
– Sebastian Faulks

“That’s why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.”
– R.D. Ronald

“Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.”
– Kelly Clarkson

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
– R.D. Ronald

“Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.”
– Kristi Bowman

“Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.”
– Criss Jami

“…I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge – then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me…”

– John Geddes

“I miss those times when I hadn’t a clue.”

– Marina Leigh Duff

“I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.”
– Neil Gaiman

“[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they’d been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn’t want to wake up from.”
– R.D. Ronald

“The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.”
– John O’ Donohue

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