Reflection Quotes

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.

~ Rosa Brooks

His words started to wedge their way into me, and they would stay for a long time; twisting me up, and causing me to look at life in a whole new way.

~ Stacie Hammond

We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.

~ Elizabeth George

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

~ John Steinbeck

Social mores, he argued, rules of protocol, concepts of rectitude and honor had no objective basis. They were only reflections of public and private fears.

~ Wade Davis

Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that's looking.

~ Karl Kloppenborg

Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.

~ Elizabeth George

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

~ Walter Isaacson

Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath.

~ President Lyndon B. Johnson

MY ⓈⓉⓎⓁⒺ is,My Presentation➟ &My Attituⅾe is,Your Reflection

~ Fahad Rashiq

True heartfelt gratitude offers moments of profound reflection, on the blessings which constantly fill our lives (KR, 1998)

~ Kieran Revell

Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You need to be able to find hope in your circumstances. We need it for ourselves and our children. Laurie and I both believe that when we reflect on all that we have and all that we love and all that we are thankful for, we feel that hope and that peace. We feel God keeping us buoyed up. We are able to face the challenges.

~ Laura Lane

Hope is when we have a beautiful vision of something and a positive emotion to go along with it. When our world comes crashing down, when we are trapped in a deep, dark, despairing hopelessness, we need a bigger perspective. Hope comes when we reflect on all that we hold dearand true, when we acknowledge a higher power, when we acknowledge God in our lives and begin to see what He has planned for our lives.

~ Laura Lane

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

~ Stacy Morris

It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.

~ Stacy Morris

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

~ Sanober Khan

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem Looking For You

~ Munia Khan

In the morning After taking cold shower —-what a mistake—- I look at the mirror.There, a funny guy, Grey hair, white beard, wrinkled skin, —-what a pity—- Poor, dirty, old man, He is not me, absolutely not.Land and life Fishing in the ocean Sleeping in the desert with stars Building a shelter in the mountains Farming the ancient way Singing with coyotes Singing against nuclear war— I’ll never be tired of life. Now I’m seventeen years old, Very charming young man.I sit quietly in lotus position, Meditating, meditating for nothing. Suddenly a voice comes to me: “To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror.

~ Nanao Sakaki

If you do not control your circumstance, you will be controlled by your circumstance. The choice is yours.

~ Tami B Harriott

Looking back, I have come to realize that the gang lifestyle back then—the fame, the respect, and the recognition—was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. It was like a do or die situation. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader

~ Drexel Deal

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us. The liberation implied by such awareness is threefold. To understand one’s own temporal determinism is to establish, above and beyond what one says and does, an analytic posture toward the present as history; it is to achieve, amid the earnest vanities of contemporary society, an easing humility; it is to mark off, as territory precious and imperiled, the moments and pursuits that are left to our choice.

~ Robert Grudin

I'm Tiny And My Reach Is Limited. I Can Give YOU Only What I Have And Surely When I Give, I Don't Keep Anything For Me. To YOU, It's Nothing Probably As YOU've Got Everything. My Everything Would Be Unnoticed. It Seems Like A Rain Drop To The Ocean.... (From The Romantic Story Reflection of The Rainbow)....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

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

There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.

~ Ellie Lieberman

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

~ Sylvia Plath

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?

~ Cat Clarke

You are placed on this earth to represent God.

~ Jim George

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

~ Christiaan Huygens

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

~ Sherry Turkle

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

~ Mark Twain

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

~ Edith Wharton

Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a solution is to let one’s thoughts drift until the right moment comes to pounce, like a tiger taking its prey by surprise.

~ José Saramago

Maybe every once in a while we can take a break from doing everything faster and quicker to reflect on who we are and where we are going.

~ Joe Plumeri

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

~ Deborah Day

Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

~ Roger Zelazny