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“How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city”

Inspirational Reality Light Running Faces Cities Sun Buddhism Summer Mirrors Winter Heat Running Away Footsteps Knots Rainstorms

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Giving Jobs Faces Artist Answers Fronts Mirrors Your Face

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.”

Ifs Faces Mirrors Blame Your Face

Author:Nikolai Gogol

“See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you are awake and are grateful for being alive. See how you can be grateful and happy for each breath. Realize that when you master gratitude, you will see a happy face every time you look into the mirror. See how your entire quality of life will be improved. See how other people will tell you that they enjoy being around you because you are such a happy person.”

People Feels Looks Persons Moments Helping Faces Joy Enjoy Realizing Quality Alive Masters Gratitude Breaths Mirrors Grateful Awake Be Grateful Quality Of Life Happy Person Happy Face

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.”

Men Wells Eye Able Faces Seeing Possibility Terrible Mirrors Incapacity

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I know the way you can get / When you have not had a drink of Love: / Your face hardens, / Your sweet muscles cramp. / Children become concerned / About a strange look that appears in your eyes / Which even begins to worry your own mirror / And nose.”

Knows Way Looks Children Eye Faces Worry Love You Strange Sweet Drink Concerned Mirrors Noses Muscles Your Face Cramps

Author:Hafez

“Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.”

Men Mind Faces Acting Teach Mirrors Faithful

Author:Robert Lloyd

“In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.”

Ifs Book Might Faces My Own Issues Alive Mirrors Raises Debate Welcome

Author:John Scott

“In each mirror, each moment A new face reveals His beauty.”

Moments Faces Spiritual Mirrors New Faces

Author:Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

“Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.”

World Faces Universe Stars My Own Space Watches Sky Involved Mirrors Regard Surface Shells

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Holy scripture is placed before the eyes of our mind like a mirror, so that we may view our inner face therein.”

Mind May Eye Faces Views Holy Mirrors Scripture Holy Scriptures

Author:Pope Gregory I

“I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.”

“But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.”

“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.”

Mind Home Faces Memories Gone Empty Mirrors Beloved Emptiness Disobedience Place And Time Times Gone By

Book:The Visitor

Source: The Visitor

“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul”

“One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.”

Two Faces Choices One Day Mirrors Lists I Realized Bathroom Two Choices

Author:Star Jones

“If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.”

Ifs Real Ends Self Faces Asks Mistake Capable Glory Mirrors Forgive Yourself Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Maya Angelou

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Needs Looks Use Hands Eye Faces Sides Secret Behinds Vision Fronts Sight Mirrors Track Prey Pins Predator Peripheral Vision Sneaking Up

Author:Diane Ackerman

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.”

Age Faces Saws Middle Mirrors Middle Aged Invading

Author:Liv Ullmann

“faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.”

Soul Age Faces Youth Absolutes Mirrors Deceiving Loveliness

Book:THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…

Source: THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…

“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”

Giving Children Book Faces Spiritual Forever Magic Talent Broken Genius Shadow Mirrors Shining Breathe Features Over It Imperfect Countenance Venus Spenser

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.”

Looks Faces Morning Abuse Mirrors Dirty Clients Washing Abusive Counselor

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your own skin. I've watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.”

Thinking Years Looks Faces Courses Bits Comfort Skins Mirrors Botox

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.”

Ifs Enough Shows Feelings Faces Sleep Skins Mirrors Stressed Enough Sleep

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”

Needs Faces Morning Mirrors Every Morning Washing

Book:Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir

Source: Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir

“We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.”

Knows Feels Faces Tree Mirrors Rings

Book:The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

Source: The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

“Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!”

Moments Faces Form Certain Rooms Gone Figures Shadow Mirrors Casts Surface Touched Chairs Spokes Over It Footsteps Spooky Gliding

Book:Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

Source: Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales

“Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.”

Faces Found Roles Fronts Mirrors Ugly

Author:Johnny Depp

“I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.”

Faces Hours Rooms Mirrors Staring My Time Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Jim Carrey

“I try to serve the character all the time; this one took a lot of work and was consuming. It's like climbing up a ladder and sometimes you're afraid to face yourself so you make excuses; you avoid going to the top of the ladder and look in the mirror.”

Trying Looks Sometimes Character Faces Mirrors Excuse Climbing Ladders Consuming Climbing Up Excuse You

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Love Looks Eye Faces Lost Clear And Love Sight Mirrors Like Me Your Face

Book:A Shropshire Lad

Source: A Shropshire Lad

“Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.”

Mind Humans Country Past Faces Individual Ability Masters Mirrors Resilience Fixed Officials Human Mind Dogma Frozen Reliance Impotence Inquiring

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.”

Ifs Children Enough Feelings Might Faces Mother Worry Failing Anxiety Empathy Concern Mirrors Good Enough Infant Not Good Enough Owing Doing Right

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.”

World Kind Shows Dream Faces Speak Leader Revolution Hero Mirrors Certainty Mask Riddle

Author:Naomi Klein

“Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.”

Men Heart Faces Women Reflection Connections Mirrors Wide Instant

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?”

Men Faces Sleep Consciousness Fire Color Mirrors Mere Primaries Features Consent Dolls Primary Colors

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“If we can just be brave enough to be each others mirror, we may finally recognize the face of conscious that we fear.”

Ifs May Enough Faces Conscious Mirrors Brave Be Brave

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes...and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He...appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too.”

“Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.”

Real Faces Love Is Reflection Mirrors

Author:Rumi

“I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook”

Faces Mirrors Staring Crooks

Author:Sefton Delmer

“The last thing you want to do is be a bore. When you wake up in the morning, give yourself a good mirror test. If you look like you’re going to be a sulking, pouting bore, slap yourself in the face before you go out to the office.”

Ifs Want Giving Looks Lasts Faces Morning Like You Office Tests Wake Up Mirrors Bores Slap Sulking Pouting

Author:Jack Welch

“I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.”

Looks Mean Faces Guy Sex Baseball Mirrors Symbols Bats Beaten Sex Symbol

Author:Javier Bardem

“Freedom is the freedom you choose, when you're not getting in your own way. The best way to start every day is to wake up and wash your face and look yourself in the mirror, right in the eyes of your reflection, and say, "don't get in my way." Because it's only when we get in our own way that we have to step back or step aside or step over here and not walk at all.”

Way Looks Eye Faces Walks Steps Reflection Wake Up Mirrors Best Way My Way Your Face You Choose

Author:Gary Busey

“I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."”

Said Humor Funny Faces Memories Mirrors Bathroom Good Memories

Author:Frank Carson

“Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.”

Love Trying Faces Seeing Mirrors Clean Trying To Change

Author:Joe Vitale

“I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."”

Thinking Knows Looks Kind Different Hard Enough Happens Faces Lines Like You Industry Importance Mirrors Brave Your Face Things Change Different Relationships

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to mention the fact that you're confronted by them as grandparents. So you also have that terrible shock, a mirror image of your own. You suddenly seem to be so helpless in the face of young children. And you think, "How did you ever bring up me?"”

Thinking Children Facts Seems Remember Faces Young Parent Common Childhood Terrible Mirrors Shock Helpless Grandparent Young Children Mirror Image

Author:Sam Mendes

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.”

Looks Faces Secret Mirrors Pins Keeping Secrets Knowing Who You Are

Author:Diane Ackerman

“But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.”

Moments Running Faces Joy Suffering Understanding Dark Pleasure Grief Sacrifice Mirrors Enjoyed Enjoyment Departure Arrivals Treasured Sicilian Mirror Image

Book:Sicilian Odyssey

Source: Sicilian Odyssey