R Quotes
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“Reflection is the means of going forward while looking backward. Navigating the future using the past and using the lessons learned from yesterday to shape our tomorrow.”
“Reflection makes men cowards.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Reflection offers a retrospective exploration, a way to figure out how everything fits and connects now on your journey- and being done so without regret or remorse. Reflection is the birthplace of discernment, an insightful and awakening place that grants you to keep what you need and smartly sift away the rest.”
Source: Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose
“Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.”
“Reflection, Resilience and Resourcefulness are three dormant strengths that are inherent in all of us. There's a beautiful interplay between these three qualities. Each one complements the other.They are key to not just surviving a crisis, they help you thrive in one.”
“REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Reflections are the mirror of vanity.”
“Reflections encourage a way to connect to the essence”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“REFLECTIONS OF A MIRROR
Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,
Even if the surface is ugly.
Truthful is he who says what is true,
Even if the truth is ugly.
Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,
Without first weighing the interior.
And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,
Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Reflections of circumstances are not a bad thing—for pausing and communicating with your lost self in a wild storm—because they can reveal what is being destroyed to set you free.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“Reflections of love, compassion and great empathy. Love is the only thing that is real. Believe in its magic that allows your heart to soar-Go forth, carry on and feel.”
Source: My Soul's Dance, Accepting the Shadows while Embracing the Light: Poems about Death and Rebirth
“REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH
Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And where you find your reflection
Is where you find love
And where you find love
Is where you find light
And where you find light
Is where you find faith
And where you find faith
Is where you find purpose
And where you find purpose
Is where you find happiness
And where you find happiness
Is where you find Truth
And when you find Truth
Truth will set you free.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.”
“Reflections sometimes reveal faces that cause us to shop for masks, but the checkout is where those reflections decide how the walkout will be.”
Source: Poetic Cognition
“Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.”
Source: Dialogue with Jean Piaget
“Reflective listening reinforces that you have been actively listening.”
Source: Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
“Reflective nostalgics miss the past and dream about the past. Some of them study the past and even mourn the past, especially their own personal past. But they do not really want the past back. Perhaps this is because, deep down, they know that the old homestead is in ruins, or because it has been gentrified beyond recognition--or because they quietly recognize that they wouldn't much like it now anyway. Once upon a time life might have been sweeter or simpler, but it was also more dangerous, or more boring, or perhaps more unjust.
Radically different from the reflective nostalgics are what Boym calls the restorative nostalgics, not all of whom recognize themselves as nostalgics at all. Restorative nostalgics don't just look at old photographs and piece together family stories. They are mythmakers and architects, builders of monuments and founders of nationalist political projects. They do not merely want to contemplate or learn from the past. They want, as Boym puts it, to "rebuild the lost home and patch up the memory gaps." Many of them don't recognize their own fictions about the past for what they are: "They believe their project is about truth." They are not interested in a nuanced past, in a world in which great leaders were flawed men, in which famous military victories had lethal side effects. They don't acknowledge that the past might have had its drawbacks. They want the cartoon version of history, and more importantly, they want to live in it, right now. They don't want to act out roles from the past because it amuses them: they want to behave as think their ancestors did, without irony.
It is not by accident that restorative nostalgia often goes hand in hand with conspiracy theories and the medium-sized lies. These needn't be as harsh or crazy as the Smolensk conspiracy theory or the Soros conspiracy theory; they can gently invoke scapegoats rather than a full-fledged alternative reality. At a minimum, they can offer an explanation: The nation is no longer great because someone has attacked us, undermined us, sapped our strength. Someone—the immigrants, the foreigners, the elites, or indeed the EU—has perverted the course of history and reduced the nation to a shadow of its former self. The essential identity that we once had has been taken away and replaced with something cheap and artificial. Eventually, those who seek power on the back of restorative nostalgia will begin to cultivate these conspiracy theories, or alternative histories, or alternative fibs, whether or not they have any basis in fact.”
Source: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
“Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.”
Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.”
Source: Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work
“Reflectorama by Stewart Stafford
City buildings screaming down,
Memories staggering anywhere,
My childhood self calls out,
But I must not go back there.
Conjoined twins amputated,
The pathway home lies cracked,
Tsunamis smashed our thin bridge,
Egregious horse, blindly backed.
Forced into immovable objections,
Monoliths in mutual self-defeat,
Torched your bed, now burn in it,
As I hotfoot it down the street.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“Reflectors need to be placed on trees every 50 feet so people can hike at night with flashlights.”
“Reflete antes de agir, pois a pressa cega a razão. Desconfia das verdades ditadas pela emoção, pois nem tudo que ressoa no coração é justiça.”
“Reflexion verhindert Schmerz.”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“REFLEXIONES DE NUESTRO SOL
Como el sol, nos elevamos en toda nuestra gloria y esplendor.
Como el sol, buscamos la sombra de las nubes durante
los momentos tormentosos de nuestras vidas.
Si el sol se quedara fijo y brillante, perdidos
estarían algunos
hermosos cambios y transformaciones que toman forma
durante los momentos de retirada.
Como el sol, nos vamos hacia atrás mientras establecemos intenciones nuevas
para volver a despertar con el rocío de la mañana.
Permítete el mismo espacio que le permites a nuestro sol.
Domina tu vida como el sol poniente.
Nadie puede robar tu luz así como nadie puede
retener realmente la vida –
haz que esta vida cuente.
Siempre date el mismo amor y respeto que mereces.
Tú eres un milagro, tan grande como el sol que sale y se pone.
Tú eres una supernova.
¡Emprende el vuelo, eres tan brillante!”
“Reflexively, he glances up to scan the trees. He always thinks to look up now.
Evan is never there.”
Source: Crimson Rivers
“Reflita no seguinte: a compreensão da impermanência é paradoxalmente a única coisa a que nos podemos agarrar, talvez a nossa única posse duradoura. Ela é como o céu ou a terra. Independentemente de quanto tudo à nossa volta possa mudar ou desmoronar-se, eles perduram (...) A terra ainda existe; o céu ainda lá está. Obviamente, até mesmo a terra estremece de vez em quando, só para nos lembrar que nada está garantido.”
“Refocusing on what you do want will take you in the direction of what you want.”
Source: The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out
“Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.”
Source: Reforesting the earth
“Reform begins with responsibility. And a responsible human backs down for nobody - not for the dick-tator, not for the bureaucrat, not for the billionaire, and definitely not for the two-bit, rabid, supremacist terrorist.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.”
“Reform education and you'd reform society.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Reform has to be based on opening your mind and opening the mind does not come from decrees or laws. It comes from a whole set of circumstances, which if you do not have, anything you do will be not productive or will be counter-productive.”
“Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.”
“Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Reform is a process, and not an event.”
“Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.”
Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Reform is born of need, not pity.”
Source: Life in the Iron-Mills
“Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.”
Source: Life in the Iron-Mills
“Reform is Chinas second revolution.”
“Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!”
“Reform is just another name for responsibility.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.”
“Reform is not a one-night stand.”
Source: Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations
“Reform is not a question of capacity, it's a question of willingness.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.”
“Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.”
“Reform isn't easy, and for me dress is the most important symbol of it, all revolutions must be takes as a whole, we've got to complete the mission.”
“Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.”
“Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”