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“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.”

Should Dream Body Imagination Reflection Shadow Casts Your Body Advaita Spiritual Awakening

Author:Adi Shankara

“On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.”

Thinking Wells Kind War Light Seems Able Culture Three Stars Reflection Tests Casts Explanation Our Time Phenomenon Echoes Chamber Saga Activate Cascade Bandwagon

Author:Cass Sunstein

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every facet of our existence. Maybe that’s why vampires seem so monstrous to us—they cast no reflection. Parents, if they’re good ones, reflect the wonder of our existence and the success we can become. Friends, well chosen, show us pretty pictures of ourselves, and encourage us to grow into them. The Beast shows us the very worst in ourselves and makes us know it’s true .”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.”

People Knows Sometimes Faces Used Fear Water Silence Clear Reflection Shadow Depth Casts Obstacles Staring Streams Dread Obscure Transparent Clear Water

Book:Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

Source: Scented gardens for the blind: a novel

“In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.”

Ifs World Way Years Long Book Stories Light Lasts Language Heaven Nature Church Week Reflection Shadow Casts Flight Grass Village Alas Solemn Truest Graveyard Spires Story Book

Book:Works of Charles Dickens

Source: Works of Charles Dickens

“The milestone of 100 episodes is a reflection of the amazing work and dedication of the entire Clone Wars cast and crew. Being a part of this production has been an honor and privilege that has changed my life forever.”

Has Beens War Forever Changed Honor Reflection Casts Privilege Productions Dedication Episodes Crew Changed My Life Milestone Amazing Work

Author:Ashley Eckstein

“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”

Life Feels Eye Past Spirit Society Building Reflection Mirrors Casts Architecture

Author:I. M. Pei

“In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.”

World Past Form Reflection Casts Streams Fleeting Rushing

Author:Dogen