Reflection Quotes

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

~ Charles Dickens

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

~ Yvonne Woon

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

~ Marie Lu

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

~ Sylvia Day

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

~ J.k. Rowling

Nico was devastatingly alone. He’d lost his big sister Bianca. He’d pushed away all other demigods who’d tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.

~ Rick Riordan

Reflection comes between us and every other person and object in the world. An object or a person can be reflected in so many different ways. Yet the heart of an object or the essence of the heart can never be reflected. All faith and creativity is the hunger to cross over this frontier, it is the desire for pure and total encounter and belonging. Love is an affair between a reflection and its object.

~ John O'donohue

That's why Twinkle likes the place so much, Scott thought, looking around at the faded wood veneer tables, and the faded souls drinking at them. Misery was soaked through the place like the old beer soaked through its carpets.

~ R.d. Ronald

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

~ Tarjei Vesaas

Sometimes, a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup.

~ Jody Gehrman

Water is the most versatile of all elements. It isn't afraid to burn in fire or fade into the sky, it doesn't hesitate to shatter against sharp rocks in rainfall or drown into the dark shroud of the earth. It exists beyond all eginnings and ends. On the surface nothing will shift, but deep in underground silence, water will hide and with soft fingers coax a new channel for itself, until stone gives in and slowly settles around the secret space. Death is water's close companion, and neither of them can be separated from us, for we are made of the versatilitiy of water and the closeness of death. Water doesn't belong to us, be we belong to water: when it has passed through our fingers and pores and bodies, nothing separates us from earth.

~ Emmi Itäranta

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

~ Ann Brashares

Rarely if ever, moments come that are so defining in our lives. The years are glutted with benign matters which impact us more deeply than we could have ever imagined in our youth.

~ Joel T. Mcgrath

Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.

~ R.d. Ronald

I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see.

~ Nina Lacour

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

~ Umberto Eco

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

~ John Christopher

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

~ Barack Obama

There is, I believe, no person, however insignificant in the world, but, if an account of his life and adventures were committed to paper, would be entertaining in some degree: the follies of our own life, and those we are liable to be drawn into by others, will constantly afford matter for serious reflection.

~ Henry Spencer Ashbee

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

~ Philip K. Dick

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

~ Charles Mackay

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.

~ Isobelle Carmody

I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around us is indeed a tremendous feat that, at some point or another, we must all undergo, alone yet together.

~ Kayla Severson

Taking the time to reflect on how you arrived at where you are today can have a massive impact on what your life will be like tomorrow.

~ Akiroq Brost

As facing the sea reveals the skyand facing the sky reveals the seafacing my soul reveals your soul

~ Xiaobo Liu

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must always reflect only what we wish to see reflected within us.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood!

~ Viorel Muha

When I look in the mirror,I see me.Who do you see?

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Start seeing yourself as God sees you, see yourself through God’s eyes

~ Sunday Adelaja

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen

Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.

~ Farshad Asl

Tomorrow the mirrors will mock me

~ Anna Akhmatova

We need people to think. We need people to think better. We need people to think more. Reflection is a valuable tool, but only in the way to drive a way forward.

~ Tony Curl

I walked out this evening to the bottom of the garden and smoked a cigarette. Last week I planted an acer in the furthest bed from the house, in honour of our new baby. The sapling is as tall as me and, by all accounts, it can grow forty feet tall. So, in thirty year's time, if we're still here I can come back and see this tree in its maturity. But the thought depresses me: in thirty years' time I'll be in my mid-sixties and I realize that these forward projections that you make, so unreflectingly, in your life are beginning to run out. Suppose I'd said in forty years' time? That would be pushing it, Fifty? I'll probably be gone by then. Sixty? Dead and buried, for sure. Thank Christ I didn't plant an oak. Is that a good definition of of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize-quite rationally, quite unemotionally-that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.

~ William Boyd

I’m saving my free time for when I am dead, I figured I will need a lot of time in the next life to reflect on what the fuck is wrong with this life.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.

~ Pearl Zhu