Reflection Quotes

Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

~ José Antonio Bowen

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

~ E.l. Doctorow

The things you say, the things you don't say, the things you do, or the things you don't do are always sending a loud message to those around you. What kind of a message are you sending? Is it a true reflection of who you are?

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

We must always strive to reflect the highest vision of ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Gansey clucked at his bedraggled reflection in the dark-framed mirror hanging in the front hallway. Chainsaw eyed herself briefly before hiding on the other side of Ronan's neck; Adam did the same, but without the hiding-in-Ronan's-neck bit. Even Blue looked less fanciful that usual, the lighting rendering her lampshade dress and spiky hair as a melancholy Pierrot.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.

~ Samantha Young

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing.

~ Anthony Liccione

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.

~ R.d. Ronald

I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.

~ Michael Bommi Baumann

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You think that I'm different.You should look in the mirror sometime.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If you want the truth about being different,all you have to do is look in the mirror.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The difference between you and me,is the different reflection that we both see.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

If I'm me.And you're you.Then who's this in the mirror?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Reading all my old love letters was disorienting. You remember thinking the thoughts and writing the words but, man, you can't TOUCH those feelings. Its like they belonged to someone else. Someone you don't even know. I'm aware, in an intellectual way. That I felt all those things about him, but this emotions are far away now.What's so strange to me is that I can't even force my heart back to that place where I felt that all consuming passion. That makes me feel distant from myself. Who WAS I then? Will I ever be able to get back to that place? Reading the letters again made me wonder: Which is the real me? The one who saw the world in that emotionally saturated way, or the me who sees it the way I do now?

~ Bill Shapiro

I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!

~ William Shakespeare

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

~ Joanie Connell

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility. – Arthur Schlesinger

~ David Pietrusza

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

~ John Geddes

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

~ Saul Bellow

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...

~ John Geddes

God’s Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

~ Elizabeth George

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

~ Khushwant Singh

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.

~ Adi Alsaid

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

~ Charlotte Brontë

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

This Self is never born, nor does It die. It did not spring from anything, nor did anything spring from It. This Ancient One is unborn, eternal, everlasting. It is not slain even though the body is slain.

~ The Upanishads

And when you finally realize you made a mistake bending to his will, changing yourself his wishes to fulfill, you will then see his ugly creation staring at your reflection and all that will be left to salvage is the carcass of your personality swarming with a plethora of worms erasing your former beautiful buried so deep, it will take a miracle to retrieve...

~ Evy Michaels

I steadied by guitar against the table, and steadied myself with it.And forgot every rule I had ever known.

~ Ruth Ahmed

It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.

~ Michelle Shen

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

~ R.d. Ronald

Reflection is a good reminder of the truth! You may turn your eyes away from the truths, but the reflections will remind them to you! And anything which describes a truth well is a reflection of that truth! Turn your eyes away from the Moon, then the lake will remind the Moon to you, the shadows of the wolves howling against the Moon will remind the truth to you, even in the eyes of a frog, you shall see the Moon! Thus, if you turn your face away from the truth, it will never work! Because the reminders of truth are everywhere and they are as strong as the truth itself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

~ Michel De Montaigne

...reflection can transform something familiar.

~ Diane L. Dunton

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good.

~ Samuel Beckett

There are always two voices in our heads, the good and the bad. The tricky part is to figure out which one of them is doing the talking.

~ Saahil Prem

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

~ Unarine Ramaru