Quotes on Reflection

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly _x000D_ themselves.

In the stream, _x000D_ Rushing past _x000D_ To the dusty world, _x000D_ My fleeting form _x000D_ Casts no reflection.

The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

Every thought creates form on some level and all that our physical experience is - is a reflection of our thoughts.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.