Best Reflection Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”

World Culture Literature Wish Novel Serious Reflection Mere Consumers Tokyo Subculture Consumer Culture Serious Work

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have... because physical reality doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.”

Giving Believe Kind Reality Spiritual Belief Energy Emotion Behavior Reflection Mirrors Determine Attraction Law Of Attraction Frequency

Author:Darryl Anka

“If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.”

Ifs Today Winning Party Reflection Percent Weakness Standing Labor Election Endure Currents Ministers Prime Prime Minister Polls

Author:Dennis A. Ross

“The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.”

Industry Reflection Entertainment Entertainment Industry

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.”

World Mind Self Wisdom Differences This World Buddhism Reflection Self Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.”

Reality Awareness Buddhism Higher Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.”

World Self Awareness Buddhism Reflection Self Awareness Perceive Sense Of Self

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception is a wave. You change as your perception of something changes because you define yourself as a reflection of whatever you happen to perceive.”

Happens Awareness Buddhism Perception Reflection Wave Perceive Things Change Define Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.”

Self Lying Awareness Buddhism Personality Perception Enlightenment Reflection Self Awareness Boundaries Cognitive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.”

Way Self Life Is Attention Awareness Fields Buddhism Illusion Reflection Invisible Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.”

Humanity Buddhism Higher Reflection Intelligent Intelligent Life Symbiosis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”

Humor Joy Reflection Insight Irony Ironic Gaiety

Author:Anatole France

“It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.”

Made Dream Spiritual Difficult Practice Democracy Society Reflection Democrat Racist Faithfulness

Author:Paulo Freire

“Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.”

Process Understanding Learning Reflection Discussion

Author:Paulo Freire

“The life that we see on our small planet is not necessarily a great reflection of the entire universe. The people are beautiful, but they tend to destroy one another. That's not an operative principle in all dimensions.”

People Inspirational Beautiful Universe Principles Planets Buddhism Reflection Dimensions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.”

Inspirational Reality Opinion Buddhism Reflection Subjective

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.”

Ifs Mind Stills Loses Perfect Clear Meditation Buddhism Reflection Eternity Clarity Lakes Ripple

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you see someone's aura, it is an outer reflection of the subtle physical body. It is about the same shape as the physical body, although it can become thousands of things.”

Body Buddhism Shapes Reflection Subtle Auras Physical Body

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!”

Watches Sun Ocean Reflection Infinite Sunset Marvellous

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“That's sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something...real." Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. "Real love, real friends, real body parts...”

Life Real Body Arms Reflection Harder Fingers Artificial Plastic Real Love Real Friends Reflecting Something Real Artificial Life

Book:The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

Source: The Other Side of Life (Book #1, Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”

Ifs Persons Beautiful Romance Crime Reflection Partners Priorities Occasions Shallow Superficial Cookies Superficiality Top Priorities Cutters Cookie Cutters Superficial Things Partners In Crime

Book:The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)

Source: The Other Side of Life (Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy, Book 1, Pre-Final Version)

“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.”

Humans Littles Soul Character Stories Young Girl Lost Felt Nice Losing Reflection Fats Ass Knees Never Ending Pretty Girl Never Ending Story

Author:Jess C Scott

“All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.”

Humans Body Reality Individual Christ Moral Reflection Dues Introducing Deficiency Body Of Christ

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.”

Writing Reason Able Purpose Fear Darkness Reflection Praise Adversity Constant Familiar Sunshine Frightening Breakdown Pessimistic

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”

Source: Killosophy

“Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.”

Reflection Contentedness

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world.”

World Years Film Growth Involved Ten Training Happenings Reflection Years Ago Immense Documentaries Minerals Mining

Author:Ann Macbeth

“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

Looks Self Thousand Reflection Crosses Morbid Condemning

Author:A. B. Simpson

“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Should Reading Interest Moral Particular Bears Morality Reflection Murder Agree Convinced Stealing Observation Witness Dogma Plunder False Witness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.”

Self Reflection Ugliness

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”

Dream Film Language Directors Reflection Capture

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“If you don't like the reflection. Don't look in the mirror. I don't care.”

Ifs Looks Care Reflection Mirrors Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Luka Magnotta

“Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.”

People Character Shows Reflection Deserve Show Respect

Author:Dave Willis

“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.”

Seems Earth Beautiful Night Courses Sides Dark Space Sun Reflection Opposites Blue Illumination Daylight Back Side

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“Actually, to be honest, this is a useful time to not be knowing what I'll be doing in 2013 or 2014, because really, for the last however many years, I've known what I've been doing for years and years ahead. You get into a cycle of non-reflection, and that gets a bit scary.”

Years Lasts Bits Known Knowing Honest Reflection Scary Being Honest Cycles

Author:Stephen Daldry

“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.”

Long Sides Subjects Demand Reflection Clouds Intellect Leisure Thick Solitary Self Reflection Daily Business

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.”

Stills Eye Attention Practice Focus Minutes Reflection Ears Shoulders Admire Breathing Butterfly Her Beauty Inquiring

Book:The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

Source: The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind

“Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?”

Self Home Body Care Reflection Pet Clothings True Self Surroundings Express Yourself

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.”

Compassion Reflection Knives Detached

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.”

Matter Speak Given Wish Prayer Deals Calling Reflection Conviction Controversy Relish Speaks Out Conducting Reluctance Thoughts And Prayers

Author:Thomas J. Paprocki

“Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.”

Love Love Is Conflict Reflection Reflexes

Author:Magnus Hirschfeld

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”

Book Order Teach Reflection Introspection Retrospect

Author:Robert Frost

“It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.”

Soul Causes Environment Reflection Environmental Logical

Author:Paolo Soleri

“Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.”

Mind Stills Process Ability Meditation Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Reflection Midst Stillness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.”

Feels States Action Buddhism Mindfulness Reflection

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time in this world.”

World Movement This World Reflection Reincarnation Apprehension

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied”

Objects Reflection Mirrors Reflecting Wise Man Once Said

Author:Confucius

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