Reflection Quotes

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

~ Mario Cuomo

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

~ Ilyas Kassam

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

~ Alain De Botton

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

~ Roman Payne

You can go everywhere, but in the end you run back into yourself.

~ Constance A. Dunn

Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.

~ Sam Owen

It takes effort and concern to really think about things.

~ Sam Owen

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

~ Poppy Z. Brite

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

~ Beth Moore

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

~ Charles Bukowski

Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it's an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits of being alone. These people are very fortunate, for they help themselves in a very important way on a regular basis. Other people are given solitude involuntarily--with me it came from my insecurities and my inability to fit in with others. For me, solitude was very often loneliness, and very often painful. But I know now that I made it painful because of my perspective, and I regret losing so many opportunities that being on my own opened up to me--I'll never be able to get them back. Find or make time for yourself to be with yourself. Spend time thinking about who you are and who you want to be. Examine your strengths and focus on possibilities. Find the friend inside who has accomplished a lot, and learn to love yourself on your own terms. If you can do this, you've taken a very important step towards being able to help others to learn about themselves and to be more content with life.

~ Tom Walsh

Then he had looked on his spirit as his I; now, it was his healthy strong animal I that he looked upon as himself. And all this terrible change has come about because he had ceased to believe himself and had taken to believing others. This he had done because it was too difficult to live believing one's self: believing one's self, one had to decide every question, not in favour of one's animal I, which was always seeking for easy gratification, but in almost every case against it. Believing others, there was nothing to decide; everything had been decided already, and always in favor of the animal I and against the spiritual. Nor was this all. Believing in his own self, he was always exposing himself to the censure of those around him; believing others, he had their approval.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

~ Steven Magee

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

~ Tim Fargo

If you don't like something in your life, look only at who you are.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Growth and empowerment requires reflection and facing the frightening, ugly, hard and unbearable reality.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Mirrors have three purposes. To show you who you are. To show you who you were. And to show you who you want to be.

~ Dan Pearce

Have you heard of the most evil things done by people in their lifetime? They have coveted men's wives, killed hundreds of Christians and sold their best friend's life away for just a few coins. Isn't it interesting that they were God's chosen in the bible? ---Saul, Judas & King David

~ Shannon L. Alder

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

~ Kristin Cashore

The mirror gives a true reflection of a man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection.

~ Michael Hyatt

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention

~ Hillary Depiano

It is never wise to run any race but your own.

~ Tim Fargo

Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance potential and kinetic energy.

~ Steve Maraboli

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

~ Dean Koontz

Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can’t see.

~ Fennel Hudson

I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too.

~ Akshay Vasu

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.

~ Fennel Hudson

The worst battle you'll have to fight is between what you know and how you feel.

~ Turcois Ominek

By gazing inward the true reflection of the self is revealed.

~ Miranda J. Barrett

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

~ Klaudio Marashi

Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one's midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achievement, dependent on will alone. This comforting illusion may be shattered by some urgent irreversible experience ... None more potently confronts us with finiteness and contingency than the imminence of our own death.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

~ Gary Hopkins