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“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.”

People Book Soul America Romance Lying Found Sleep Secret Magic Danger Strange Mirrors Depth

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.”

Found Weakness Opposites Mirrors Being True Therapy Willingness Up To You

Author:Brooke Shields

“Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?”

Long Found Fields Periods Empty Mirrors Interiors Psychologist Exterior Long Periods Of Time Gestalt

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

“Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.”

Men I Can Found Like You Decided Mirrors Scared Who I Am Doing Me Just Doing Me

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.”

Writing Found Numbers Fiction Happened Week Months Mirrors Caring September Incapable September 11 September 11 2001

Author:Gregory Maguire

“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

“God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.”

Knows Humans Doe God Able Beautiful Found Company Sun Divine Truth Is Goodness Mirrors Longing Leap Rejoice Innate Specks Goodness And Truth

Author:Roberta Bondi

“When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.”

Way Found Cases Havens Degrees Performances Mirrors Significant Significance Substitutes Void Alignment

Author:Richard Rohr

“I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.”

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.”

“Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.”

Believe Persons Reality Used Found Rooms Hell Saws Nice Fronts Mirrors Connected Accepted Used To Be Hotel Peter Hotel Rooms Rakes Polaroids Old Picture

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.”

World Way Trying I Can Soul Character Order Found Literature Mirrors Best Way Places In The World

Author:Paulo Coelho

“My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.”

People Way Sometimes Reason Found Belief Easier Research Mirrors Angry Assuming Priorities Curious Rejection Assumption Frustrated Constraints

Author:Gary A. Klein

“...I started photographing myself, and found that I could see portions of myself that I had never seen before. Since I face just my face in the mirror, I know pretty much what it's like. When I see a side-view I'm not used to it, and find it peculiar... So, photographing myself and discovering unknown territories of my surface self causes an interesting psychological confrontation.”

Knows Self Faces Used Found Causes Sides Interesting Views Mirrors Surface Psychological Territory Peculiar Portions Discovering Confrontation

Author:Lucas Samaras

“I remember the day before my dad died, I was in a hospital room with him, and he had lived a long life. He was 94, and I helped him get up, and there were two windows separated by the partition. I took him to the first window, and he kind of found his way to the second window, and on the way there was a mirror, and he looked into it, and I saw through the corner of my eye, I remember the look on his face. What came over his face was "So I'm here. I've crossed that bridge."”

Way Firsts Looks Kind Long Two Eye Remember Faces Found Rooms Saws Dad Window Died Mirrors My Dad Corners Get Up Bridges Hospitals Long Life Partition Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Andy Kim

“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”

Soul Whole Life Is Found Social Community Virtue Healthy Reflection Mirrors Social Life Community Building Serving The Community Building Community Community Living

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.”

Looks Self Shows Found Humour Degrees Elements Mirrors Disappointment Ridiculous Frightened Portraits Introspection Self Portrait

Author:Robert Winston

“You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you”

Want Inspirational Book Spiritual Universe Asks Found Divine Mirrors Manifestation Volume

Author:Rumi

“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.”

Love Found Water Changed Moon Bird Ears Mirrors Wings Shoes Glasses Pockets Wedding Diamond Coins Feathers Pebbles Flipped Pears Pineapples

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?”

People Knows Light Faces Found Impossible Expression Wall Mirrors Simile Trembling Torches Did You Know Blazing

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.”

Way Mother Night Found Father Wise Fronts Serious Walking Thirds Mirrors Noise Staying Get Back Grandfather All Night Mother And Father Nodding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams. It doesn't fell like metal. The colour is amazing". "Why?" (Trella) "It blends in. It matches your skin. Didn't you know?" (Riley) "No mirrors in my cell." (Trella) He gasped with mock horror. "So cruel! How did you ever survive?" (Riley)”

Knows Found Horror Skins Mirrors Fingers Surface Cells Ran Colour Necks Metals Mock Collars

Author:Maria V. Snyder

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?”

Mind Eye Found Sadness Infinite Mirrors Clarity Her Eyes Gorgeous Feeling Sad

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”

Soul Eye Found Gone Saws Grace Mirrors My Soul Institute Will Herondale Jem Carstairs

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”

Ifs Men World Needs Doe Body Found Waiting Attitude Wonderful Mystery Divine Source Self Improvement Mirrors Supreme Tendencies Wonderful Things Outer Worlds

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.”

People Want Persons Self Desire Found Consciousness Awareness Love You Evolution Perception Mirrors Delight Attractive Love Yourself Traits Joyful

Author:Deepak Chopra

“An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past”

Past Order Found Destiny Written Example Mirrors Our Thoughts Hype Deceptive Things Past

Author:Pierre Corneille

“We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.”

Years Soul Faces Night Found Waiting Accepting Magic Stones Mirrors Self Awareness Yesterday Trials Spite Mask Dragons Sunlight Wizards Homemade

Author:Richard Bach