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Source: Annotated Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus with English Grammar Exercises: by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”

Knows Mind Ideas Self Facts Action Given Existence Consciousness Reflection Direct Roots Contact Observation Recognise Self Consciousness Inference

Book:Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

Source: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

“But music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.”

Self Music Is Reflection Checks Mail

Author:Eminem

“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

“Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”

Source: Real Moments

“Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.”

Self Moments Happiness Enemy Solitude Quiet Reflection Selfishness

Author:William B. Ogden

“One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the Spirit, which is the reflection of God Almighty in our heart. That is self identity and also self knowledge. Also, one becomes one with the all-pervading Divine power of love. Our awareness is enlightened by the Spirit and Divine vibrations start flowing through our central nervous system enlightening our being.”

“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”

Inspirational Looks Self Spiritual Turns Leadership Awareness Becoming Equal Reflection Self Awareness Personal Development Teamwork Reflecting Self Reflection Confucianism Reflection Of Yourself

Author:Confucius

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.”

Self Knowledge Acceptance Reflection Self Knowledge

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”

Thinking Believe Self Happens Levels Self Esteem Draws Reflection Self Worth Esteem About Yourself My Self Worth Great Self Esteem Help Self Esteem

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.”

“After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.”

Wells Self Desire Sports Goal Successful Doubt Achieve Reflection Perseverance I Realized Being Successful Athletic Gymnastics Thorough Self-doubt Desire To Achieve

Author:Jonathan Horton

“Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.”

Trying Mind Soul Self Happiness Life Is Difficult Achieve Discipline Reflection Contemplation Self Discipline Disposition True Happiness Inner Life Trying Times Life Is Difficult

Author:William L. Shirer

“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.”

“To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.”

People World Wells Self Reality Spiritual Difficult Realizing Awareness Source Photography Reflection Direct Majority Photograph Factual Spiritual Awareness

Author:Ansel Adams

“I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.”

Giving Self Reflection Aim

Author:T.I.

“I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.”

Thinking Mean Self Given Empathy Reflection Rap Poetic Libertarianism Self Reflection Hedonism Destructiveness

Author:Courtney Love

“I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.”

Source: Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary

“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”

Want Ideas Self Desire Motivation Individual Opinion Awareness Personality Reflection Self Awareness Average Reactions Superiors Impulse Subjective Self Reflection

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one time or another. The key is to recognize setbacks for what they really are-entry points for learning, not validation that you aren't good enough. After a disappointment analyze your actions, get feedback from friends, and take inventory of what you could do better next time. This type of self-reflection and improvement will ultimately make success inevitable.”

“Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”

Thinking Want Self Values Humility Perception Reflection Asking Interaction Self Reflection Thinking About You Assessing Interaction With Others Asking Yourself Questions

Author:Robert L. Rosen

“No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.”

Source: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.”

“At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy's voice whispers in our ears, 'You can't do it.' 'You're too young.' 'You're too old.' 'You're nobody.' This is when we remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth provides a profound sense of strength and power.”

Self Dream Remember Young Voice Vision Enemy Our Lives Achievement Reflection Ears Profound Defeat Clouds Aspiration Our Dreams God Image Dwarfs Old You Dwarves Culprit

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.”

“How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.”

Self Eye Easy Difficult Sin Tears Reflection Forgiving Violent Deep Thought Repent Offenders

Author:Stefanie Schneider

“When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.”

“We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.”

Way Different Self Spiritual Study Reflection Committed Awakening Different Ways Self Reflection Spiritual Awakening

Book:The First and Last Freedom

Source: The First and Last Freedom

“Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up.”

Men Way Has Beens Made Self Together Existence Consciousness Psychology Source Conflict Ego Reflection Conscious Originals Circles Former Urges Paradox Self Reflection Individuation

Book:The Collected Works

Source: The Collected Works

“Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.”

Mind Long Self Water Tree Sky Quiet Reflection Mirrors Surface Tranquility Relaxed Reflecting Tranquil

Author:Indra Devi

“The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.”

Soul Self Matter Clear Moon Illusion Reflection Lakes Midnight

Book:The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self

Source: The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self

“I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.”

Self Play Found Effort Fame Reflection Labor Mirrors Distance Prison Rewards Stakes

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.”

World Self Realizing Findings Reflection Faults Self Will Reflection Of Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.”

“Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.”

People Self Reflection Discovery Intimacy Engaged Existential Self Reflection Animated Manageable

Author:Kirk J. Schneider

“Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections”

Important Self Practice Reflection Self Reflection Examining

Author:Ryuho Okawa

“The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.”

Heart Self Dark Reflection Shadow Mirrors Staring Abyss Shadow Self

Author:John J. Geddes

“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”

May Self House Reflection Self Reflection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.”

Knows Men World Doe Self Spirit Lying Religion Order Moral Serious Reflection Profound Sinner Priests Free Will Conquest Saviour

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1

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