R Quotes
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“Reflect onto the world what you want them to see. Let your heart help them figure out the rest of who you truly are.”
“Reflect, relearn.”
“Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.”
“Reflect that life, like every other blessing,
Derives its value from its use alone.”
Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims
“Reflect that you could have written the book so much better yourself, if only you had the time and the inclination for the task; and that the literate won't be listening, if you're speaking on air, or doing more than glance at your review, if it appears in print; and go right ahead! There will be no reprisals. If the author is young and struggling, he won't dare to expose your pretensions; and if he is well established he won't think it worth while to do so.”
“Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.”
“Reflect upon the wonderful enlightened qualities of the buddhas, particularly those of the historical Buddha. We all know that Shakyamuni Buddha was not a fully enlightened being right from the start. Initially, he was just like us—an ordinary being struggling on the path, with the natural weaknesses and limitations that we all have. What distinguishes the Buddha from us, however, is that he took the practice of bodhicitta to heart. He then embarked upon the path and, as a result of his efforts, eventually attained the fully enlightened state.”
Source: Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
“Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'”
“Reflect upon your present blessings”
Source: The Works of Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Source: Sketches by Boz
“Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.”
“Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)
“Reflected fire made the blade seem aflame.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“Reflected, framed, the room had charms foreign to the original, just as an ordinary or even ugly object gains beauty and dignity when painted or photographed.”
Source: Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
“Reflected in the dragonfly's eye -- mountains.”
“Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“reflectido nas pedras do passeio. Lisboa é a nitidez através do ar. Lisboa é a cor manchada dos muros. Lisboa é o musgo novo a nascer sobre o musgo seco. Lisboa é o desenho de fendas, como relâmpagos, a escorrerem pela superfície dos muros. Lisboa é a imperfeição criteriosa. Lisboa é o céu reflectido”
Source: Cemitério de Pianos
“Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.”
“Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.”
“Reflecting back on the journey to the
“Great Outdoors”
places me in a different tonal mood, filled
up with hope and passion, not resentful,
suppressed relics of anger unresolved
Did you listen to the winds?
What did you hear?
Did you listen to the trees?
What knowledge did they bring you?
Did you listen to the birds?
What songs did they sing to you?
Did you listen to the Universe(s)?
What messages did they bring you?
Did you listen to the ancestors?
What hope did they send you?
Did you really listen?
Close your eyes and open up your full
heart and listen again
Not for me
Do it 4 UrSelf
Do it 4 tha Future
Look beyond UrSelf
Open up UrSelf
Love ThySelf
Quiet the chatter of your mind, close
the racing tracks and be still and
quiet so that U can hear what
they’re trying to say to U.
Be appreciative for what U have been
bestowed and blessed to be stewards of, please
do not take this to mean: Destroy, dominate,
and control.
Let it mean be cognizant of the complexity, respect true
biodiversity, respect and honor all Life, allow for balance, and
recognize evolutionary adaptability in all of Creation.
The winds are blowing good tidings and blessings
in this here direction as this one poem comes
to a close while striving for the rootedness of an
ancient Sequoia so high up in the sky and deeply rooted
in our common Mother. Listen to my woes of loneliness
and see that will Life all around, NO one is truly lonely or alone.”
Source: Balancing the Rift: ReCONNECTualizing the Pasenture
“Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for today! Will be most important, when you find yourself at the crossroads of tomorrow. Remember the goals you set yourself, travel the path closest to your heart. Trust your heart, your instincts, your soul.”
“Reflecting is essential, but regret should not ground you in the past. It should make you grateful that you have a conscious mind that realized right from wrong. It should give you strength to wisely use your present to make your future better.”
Source: Mind Platter
“Reflecting my life and the Circle of Life in my garden has been a source of Joy and has given a better understanding of the Truth of Love.”
Source: Shamanic Gardening: Timeless Techniques for the Modern Sustainable Garden
“Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.”
“Reflecting on how you want to be remembered after you are gone, is a good way to make informed and intelligent choices about how you want to live the rest of your Life.”
“Reflecting on my Autism - The processing and communication issues that I have I look at it like this I have had set cards dealt to me and I'm going play them to the best of my abilities.”
Source: Living Through the Haze
“Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr C. D. Broad, ‘that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.’ According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages.”
Source: The Doors of Perception
“Reflecting on my time at the 2006 to 2008 observatory, I started to lose my voice in management meetings after extensively handling the rubber mercury mirror support system and the large glass jars of on-site stored mercury with my bare hands and no respiratory protection.”
“Reflecting on the moments you lived to the fullest,
You realize, no moment was ever lost
As you lived a life not of possibilities but of actualities
for you had a love loved, dreams fulfilled,
and suffering bravely suffered.
So, you lived a life of agony and ecstasy.
And that is living to the fullest.”
“Reflecting on the night before, he found it extraordinary that after a lifetime of infidelities, a night with an imaginary friend was no less exciting.”
“Reflecting on the past while living in the present, we make decisions that will reverberate in the future. Our daily actions, thought patterns, and the concepts we choose to cherish will create the paradigmatic structure of our life story; our collective decision-making determines our final manifestation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.”
Source: Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
“Reflecting on this order, which lays out a job of work and breathes the very spirit of unhurried calm, one is conscious of that queer feeling of exasperation which, even at this distance, McClellan's acts occasionally inspire. With everything in the world at stake, both for the country and for McClellan personally, why couldn't the man have taken fire just once?”
Source: Mr. Lincoln's Army
“Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.”
“Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.”
“Reflection can provide a visual superiority over the reflected, but it can never provide an existential superiority because without the reflected there can be no reflection!”
“Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action - to be a leader.”
“Reflection goes hand-in-hand with assessment and leads to long-lasting growth and change (in combination with action, of course).”
Source: Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters
“Reflection in the mirror
makes reality look at you”
“Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.”
“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!”
“Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.”
“Reflection is a good thing. It allows us to look back in time so we can connect the dots between specific memories to reveal the purpose and meaning behind synchronistic events.”
Source: The Book of Simple Human Truths
“Reflection is a scene that I will cherish forever.”
“Reflection is not just thinking, it is the bridge between the mind and the heart.”
Source: When the Human Remembers
“Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.”
“Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one’s own life is about as productive as talking to one’s image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.”
“Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.”
Source: Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life
“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”
“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”