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“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

“Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.”

Ability Loneliness Depends Reflection Prerequisites

Author:Gao Xingjian

“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.”

Humans Light Truth Values Ability Clear Quiet Reflection Capacity Affection Clarity Permanent Cant Quiet Reflection

Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.”

Thinking Said Ability Decision Lessons Reflection Gains Combination Plus More Time Good Decision

Author:Brian Tracy

“You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.”

People Children Ability Teach Discipline Reflection Chess

Author:Maurice Ashley

“Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.”

House Fun Ability Watches Comedy Style Standards Reflection Mirrors Behave

Author:Alan King

“The suburbs have always been like an American version of utopia and a reflection of their hopes and fears. Erika's version of American suburban utopia - which I am renaming the outer ring - is a diverse place, with affordable housing, the possibility for people to have small businesses, which is more realistic in the outer ring than in the city with its huge costs, decent public transportation and the ability to access art and cultural events. That's my dream for America.”

People Art Dream Ability Possibility Reflection Rings Decent Realistic Diverse Small Business Utopia Transportation Affordable

Author:Erika M. Anderson

“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.”

Men Certain Ability Failing Reflection Righteous Fury Unbelievers

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Feels Persons Self Use My Own Ability Risk Objects Ego Reflection Commitment Absence Willingness Exploitation Exposure Ability To See I Need Him

Author:Erich Fromm

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.”

Government Ability Effort Liberty Subjects Degrees Reflection Determination Tyranny Willingness Relative

Book:From Dictatorship to Democracy

Source: From Dictatorship to Democracy

“Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.”

“Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, memos to be circulated, announcements to be posted, bills to be collected, posters to be displayed and diaries to be concealed. Writing is for ideas, action, reflection, and experience. It is not for having your ignorance exposed, your sensitivity destroyed, or your ability assessed.”

“As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.”

Men Life Is Ability Amount Reflection Endless Disability Disabled People With Disabilities Learning Disability

Author:Robert M. Hensel

“Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.”

Facts Life Is Ability Study Progress Intellectual Reflection Increase Vocabulary Correlation

Book:The word-a-day vocabulary builder

Source: The word-a-day vocabulary builder

“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us.”