Reflection Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: ‘Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
– Susan Sontag

“A day is not always bright, and Nights are not always dark. All that matters is what’s inside, because day and night are a reflection of you.”
– Avantika

“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”

– Ken Kesey

“…poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths…”
– John Geddes

“This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride — he’s my dad — and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.”

– Nick Cave

“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”
– Whitaker Chambers

“Your life is a reflection… you don’t get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.”

– Steve Maraboli

“We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.”
– Valerie Tarico

“…Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable…”
– John Geddes

“When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror…that’s when you know you’re doing it right.”
– Dave Matthes

“What wild undisturbed corners do you leave within you or within your partner, your children, your parents, your closest friends? What is left respectfully and quietly for passive cultivation, for privacy, for the imagination, for discovery, for serendipity, for faith, for secrecy, for grace, for reverence, for the untapped, for the future, for the unknowable and the unknown?”
– Kathryn Hall

“Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.”

– Megan Abbott

“Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.”
– Issac Watts

“And though I’ve lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.”
– Tim Winton

“…I’m a modern mountebank – I believe in Physiognomy – after all, we are in control of our face – it’s the map of where we’ve been…”

– John Geddes

“…dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins – now the crows own the field…”
– John Geddes

“Ruin still used Reen’s voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she’d never actually seen herself.”
– Brandon Sanderson

“I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
– Angeline M. Bishop

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ”
– Confucious

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ”
– John Quincy Adams

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ”
– Thomas Merton

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. ”
– Albert Einstein

“My role in society, or any artist‘s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. ”
– John Lennon

“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ”
– Steven Biko

“I’m a reflection of the community. ”
– Tupac Shakur

“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. ‘
– Frederick Douglass

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
– C.S. Lewis

“So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it’s a positive one. ”
– Sidney Poitier

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. ”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

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