Reflection Quotes

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.

~ Marcus Valerius Martialis

He seemed to become aware of a dark, imponderable force pushing him left when he meant to go right or pulling him back when he meant to go forward. Until that moment, hewould have felt certain that his actions had never been subject to restraintby others. He had been certain that he did whatever he did of his ownaccord, that everything he said he intended to say.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Man is mortal, we are dust and to dust we shall return

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For a moment, frustration clouded his features. He inhaled deeply, and the clouds went away. “I miss people, you know? I miss actually living. I want to have a purpose in my life, but I don't. I'm just existing, and I don't know how long I can continue it.

~ Rose Wynters

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.

~ Kamal Ravikant

One Crack On A Mirror Can Ruin The Beauty of It But Most Importantly, It Ruins The Reflection of The Individual, By Making It Twisted, Zigzag And Ugly. Character Is Like A Mirror. So Build Your Character In Such A Way That It Reflects All The Good In Others Who Follows You Or Treat You As An Idol....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you … your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option – a choice that didn’t hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon – but he couldn’t see one.

~ Rick Riordan

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and, little by little, begins to rule us. Already in The Joke: “I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me) was much more real than my actual self; that I was its shadow and not it mine; that I had no right to accuse it of bearing no resemblance to me, but rather that it was I who was guilty of the nonresemblance; and that the nonresemblance was my cross, which I could not unload on anyone else, which was mine alone to bear.”And in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: “Destiny has no intention of lifting a finger for Mirek (for his happiness, his security, his good spirits, his health), whereas Mirek is ready to do everything for his destiny (for its grandeur, its clarity, its beauty, its style, its intelligible meaning). He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.

~ Milan Kundera

Believing the phenomenon of karma is placing your destiny in the hands of the devil.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies

~ Bryant Mcgill

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

~ Farshad Asl

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

~ Aubrey De Grey

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

~ Shannon L. Alder

In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark from the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in his eyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image.THAT was the source if not the cause of all our ordeals.

~ Elie Wiesel

Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you.

~ J.r. Rim

Not one of you reflects, that you ought know your Gods before you worship them.

~ Charles Southwell

Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it.

~ Marcel Proust

Find the words that cause reflection in you. That is where true learning begins.

~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.

~ Lange Weile

In the shade of words sits life itself.

~ Aisha Mirza

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.

~ Anthony Liccione

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

~ Sol Luckman

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

~ H.w. Brands

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray 'in spirit and in truth' enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life.

~ Thomas Merton

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

~ Martin Luther

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

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

~ Dinaw Mengestu

Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.

~ Jonathan Harnisch

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

~ John Geddes

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.

~ John Dewey

I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.

~ Donald Antrim