Browsing Topic Best Reflection Quotes

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The more I reflect on the endless parade of history, the more I am haunted by the futility and absurdity of all human affairs.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Show respect to people who don’t deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

I don’t really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

Wisdom comes from reflection.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Speak not, nor act before thou hast reflected.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature–: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

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.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

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

A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making. Teaching us what’s truly important is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.

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

Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.