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“I'm utterly convinced of the One-ness of Love and us as its perfect reflection. I am absolutely convinced that the world around us is a world of appearances and anyone who wants to can practice it. Change your thought and your environment will change. It's not instantaneous and sometimes we have to work very hard to make what we want happen. Working hard and holding that thought, it will change.”

World Want Sometimes Hard Happens Perfect Practice Environment Reflection Appearance Convinced Our Environment Instantaneous Change Your Thoughts

Author:Richard Bach

“It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.”

Kind Desire Given Example Divine Reflection Appearance Symbols Perceive Related Identical

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.”

“There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.”

Knows Reality Might Eye Lying Reflection Shadow Mirrors Appearance Accepted Circles Dimensions

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.”

Years Heart Character Stories Next Waiting Stage Broken My Heart Reflection Wings Appearance Ties Intimate Short Story Portions Curtains Concealed Forged

Author:Shusaku Endo

“Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”

Men Needs Looks Heart Real Eye Dark Vision Influence Conditions Cry Objects Exercise Reflection Optimism Fellows Appearance Optimistic Colour Delicate Fellow Man Gloomy Hue

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.”

Heart Women Fashion Clothes Reflection Appearance Adornment

Author:Coco Chanel

“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”

Mind Different Nature Beauty Creative Design Thousand Reflection Various Appearance Visible Phenomenon Self Reflection Utterance Creative Mind Primeval

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.”

People Believe Reality Would Be Able Easy Failing Tree Reflection Photograph Appearance Foolish Confused Melancholy Automobile

Author:Duane Michals

“We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.”

Reflection Appearance Visible Mature Phenomenon Lack Of Knowledge Outward Appearance

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you”

Inspirational Persons Growth Identity Positive Personality Reflection Harmony Personal Growth Individuality Appearance Interiors Harmonious Exterior

Author:Jim Rohn

“All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.”

People Humans Soul Care Values Space Fronts Human Nature Reflection Aspect Appearance Architecture Entrances Elevation

Book:The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd