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“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”

Ifs Mean Stills Self Shows Together Pieces Broken Skills Reflection Mirrors Glasses Tiny Versions Former Useless Cracks Chips Shattered Back Together Fragmented Broken Glass

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”

“Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in parting with dear objects. The humid gaze does not wander around holding back a tear, as if it wished to carry away in it a trembling reflection of the abandoned spot; but in the best corner of our hearts we feel pity for the things which we did not bring to life with our breath, which we hardly noticed and are now leaving forever. This already dead iventory will not be resurrected in one's memory.”

Ifs Feels Heart Doe Memories Break Forever Happened Objects Tears Reader Sorrow Reflection Breaths Leaving Dear Corners Pity Spots Wander Subtle Abandoned Parting Trembling Unloved Abode Holding Back

Book:The Gift

Source: The Gift

“Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.”

Ifs Giving Mind Doe Has Beens Whole Body Lost Left Too Much Impossible Written Reflection Roots Over It Stomach Fewer Spoil Choke Nourishment Pondering Tablets Overload

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer

“The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he was. Sure as if she was staring at her own reflection. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes for last she had known, he breathed no longer. "Vishous," she whispered desperately. "Oh, brother mine.”

Ifs Eye Lasts Known Forever Tears Mines Brother Reflection Males Staring Diamond Locked Her Eyes Vishous

Book:Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.”

“You told me once, long ago, to look into a mirror and see your face. I refused to then. But now Mnimi has forced me to look at my own reflection. I’ve seen it through my eyes and I’ve seen it through yours. I wish to the gods that I could change what happened between us. If I could go back, I would never deny you. But I can’t. We both know that. Now I just want the chance to know you as I should have known you all those centuries ago. (Styxx)”

“These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.”

Source: The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner; with a biographical account of Defoe

“If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?”

Ifs Hair Reflection Mirrors

Author:Steven Wright

“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.”

Ifs Way Feels Trying Heart States Facts Can Do Levels Emotion Study Effects Changed Reflection Mere Glasses Believer Firm Observers Open Heart Magnifying Magnifying Glass

Author:Neal Shusterman

“I shut the bathroom door and caught sight of my face in the mirror. I had no idea how quickly it was to change, to fade. If I had, I would have stared at my reflection, memorizing it. It was the last time I would look into a real mirror for more than a decade.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Real Lasts Faces Doors Reflection Sight Mirrors Caught Decades No Idea Fades Last Time Bathroom Memorizing

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it.”

Ifs Soul Light Wanted Beautiful Night Doors Special Needed Reflection Filled Dancing Ponds

Author:Kiersten White

“A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.”

Source: The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Mean Made Results Source Fool Comfort Reflection Suits My Way Way Of Thinking

Author:Marquis de Sade

“If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Human Nature Periods Reflection Mirrors Shoes Yesterday Pairs Favourite Pair Of Shoes Favourite Things

Author:Taylor Swift

“If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirt, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!" He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.”

Ifs Knows Giving Night Reflection Give Me Shocked Alas Cousin Scruples Sleepless Nights

Author:Georgette Heyer

“Your green eye is a reducing chamber. If I look into it long enough, I wil become as small as my own reflection, I will diminish to a point and vanish. I will be drawn down into that black whirlpool and be consumed by you. I shall become so small you can keep me in one of your osier cages and mock my loss of liberty.”

Ifs Looks Long Enough Eye Black My Own Loss Liberty Reflection Green Cages Diminish Chamber Consumed Reducing Mock Green Eyes Whirlpools

Author:Angela Carter

“You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.”

Ifs Moments Existence Stage Love You Reflection Madness

Author:Anais Nin

“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

“..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?”

“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”

Ifs World Wells Said Done Reflection Good Life Said And Done

Author:Alan Sillitoe

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom

“The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.”

Ifs Needs Body Earth Faces Spirit Dark My Own Objects Reflection Mirrors Glasses Agents Nerves Engines Ingenious Physical Body Memorandum

Book:Humboldt's Gift

Source: Humboldt's Gift

“If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let her breathe. I'd kiss her so hard she'd plead for mercy. I'd unfasten her clothing and lie with her onthat hard bed, and what was between us would be as far above the ordinary congress between man and woman as the stars are above their pale reflections in the lake below.”

Ifs Men Hard Hands Would Be Able Lying Stars Bed Kissing Ordinary Reflection Men And Women Mercy Congress Breathe Lakes Clothings Pale

Book:Heir to Sevenwaters

Source: Heir to Sevenwaters

“I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]”

Ifs War Turns Forget Brother Projects Reflection Remains Refuse Disappear Obsession Rely My Brother Brothers And Sisters Undoing Abnegation

Author:Veronica Roth

“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

People Ifs Inspirational Long Light Easy Realizing Sun Impossible Reflection Mirrors Shining Acknowledge Sunshine Reflecting Brightness Acknowledgement Bright Lights Mirroring Easiness

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.”

Ifs World Want Sides Achieve Reflection Behave Changing The World

Book:The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes

Source: The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes

“How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”

Ifs Mind Mean Compassion Too Much Reflection Direct Blame Love And Compassion

Author:Elif Safak

“Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself”

Ifs Persons Matter Impossible Quiet Reflection Recognise Deep Within

Author:Jennifer Worth

“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?”

Ifs Forget Reflection

Book:My Name Is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”

Ifs Moments Reflection Window Shops Shop Windows

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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 world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”

Ifs World Life Inspirational Motivational Spirituality Positive Prove Self Improvement Reflection Mirrors Friendly Helpful Gardening

Author:Thomas Dreier

“To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.”

People Ifs Fashion Reflection Mirrors

Author:Anna Sui

“However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!”

“It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.”

Ifs Habit Reflection

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.”

“Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.”

Ifs World Life Wells Remember Simple Poor Results Secret Rich Reflection Negative Simple Life Inner Life Inner World Outer Worlds Rich Or Poor

Author:T. Harv Eker

“We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of degree, and must not be pressed; but if not taken too seriously it may help to make the situation clear. I mean by "hard" data those which resist the solvent influence of critical reflection, and by "soft" data those which, under the operation of this process, become to our minds more or less doubtful.”

Source: Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

“The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.”

Ifs Knows Mean Art Moments Next Taken Color Reflection Blue Green Rose Gray Violet Mackerel

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.”

Ifs Thinking States Use Consciousness Meditation Objects Essentials Reflection Conscious Understood Essence Contemplation

Author:Rajneesh

“The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights-for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”

“Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.”

“Have you said 'I LOVE YOU' to * Yourself * today? If YOU Haven't, then you can certainly imagine how many others haven't. The World is simply a reflection of who we are. Perhaps it's time to Fully Embrace and Love the One you see in the mirror. This 'Reflection' is The Greatest Gift we can give to each other. Infinite Love to All.”

Ifs World Giving Said Today Imagine Love You Havens Reflection And Love Infinite Mirrors Embrace Who We Are Love Yourself Greatest Gifts Infinite Love

Author:Eric Allen

“I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”

“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”

Ifs Love Years Doe Would Be Beautiful Fall Reflection Falling In Love Conceit Fading Conceited Narcissus

Author:W. H. Auden

“The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend on human beings... If this were not so, the founders of religion could not be counted among the greatest men of this earth... In its workings, even the religion of love is only the weak reflection of the will of its exalted founder; its significance, however, lies in the direction which it attempted to give to a universal human development of culture, ethics, and morality.”

“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

“I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it can become an intense personal experience. Manila can be chaotic and spiritual, dirty and divine, gritty and gorgeous all at once. If you don't find beauty and poetry here, you will never find it anywhere.”

Ifs Mind Believe States Spiritual I Believe Easy Cities Divine Reflection Extremes Intense Dirty State Of Mind Contrast Gorgeous Chaotic Personal Experiences Manila

Author:Carlos Celdran

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