Reflection Quotes

If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.

~ Sanhita Baruah

While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another's freedom to choose their 'get down' - their way of living... and don't be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes before you open your heart's desire -- to make a clear determination what's in your best interest. If you already know how the story ends, and it doesn't fit you, keep [the] proper distance in perspective, in any form(s) of relationship, for the love of self. It may be disappointing, but you'll eventually discover the right one deserving of your full attention. Or, you may be surprised by their sudden awakening to your worthiness. Walk slowly, especially, when it comes to matters of the heart.

~ T.f. Hodge

She wasn’t looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.

~ Denny B. Reese

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.

~ Amit Kalantri

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

~ Michael Cunningham

How I look to you is the reflection of how you look at me.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Some people live disconnected, in a world of their own. Their wishful thinking represents their sole veracity. But when the mirror smashes the reflection of their delusion, it will not falter to talk back. ( The day the mirror was talking back )

~ Erik Pevernagie

I finally wentwhere everyone goesand I realizedI wasnevermissingout.

~ Meraaqi

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

~ Christian Baloga

When you look in the mirror, do you look at yourself or for yourself?

~ Dominic Riccitello

In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

~ J.d. Stroube

You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

Be happy for things that work.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.

~ Brandy Nacole

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

~ Ellis Peters

What I do is the truest mirror of who I am.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.

~ Ryan Lilly

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…

~ Jess C. Scott

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

~ Criss Jami

Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.

~ Amit Ray

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being able to be present. What we are looking for is a settled, joyful state of being, and we need to give this state space. The Archbishop once told me that people often think he needs time to pray and reflect because he is a religious leader. He said those who must live in the marketplace - business people, professionals and workers - need it even more.

~ Desmond Tutu

They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is a reflection of the evilness on their inside which is slowly destroying them. A person like that must deal with the matters of their heart.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it would spark a new chain of negative thoughts in me bringing me down to their level misery.

~ Bethany Brookbank

Every joy is like a piece of mirror: always reflecting..

~ Munia Khan

Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We like to see our future through our children, they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.

~ Debasish Mridha

We were wiser as children if not for anything else but for our ability to always reflect. Reflection is a powerful tool to move forward into an enlightened stage of wisdom. Children reflect everyday about being reprehended, what made them happy, something new they discovered. This constant state of reflection is what makes them grow and unfortunately the arrogance of adulthood brings reflection to a halt and puts a stop to a continual growth that we should pursue, as we once did.

~ Avra Amar Filion

Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

~ I.m. Pei

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man. Me? I won't stomach them for a minute.

~ Ray Bradbury

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.

~ Joseph Campbell