Reflection Quotes - page 6

Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness. (Pierre Hadot)
Let us beware in ourselves, my beloved, and realize that even if Gehenna is subject to a limit, the taste of its experience is most terrible, and the extent of its bounds escapes our very understanding. Let us strive all the more to partake of the taste of God's love for the sake of perpetual reflection on Him, and let us not (have) experience of Gehenna through neglect. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
It's interesting because we live in a country where the obesity is so enormous. And then the reflection on the runways is girls that are so thin. So there's two extremes that are almost like a reflection of themselves, and it's very hard to be in the middle with girls that are just healthy. View quote
Nina Garcia
This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility. View quote
Eugen Herrigel
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind. View quote
Charles Cooley
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that-at the moment-I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Not that I've ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren) That's the truth. I swear he's half beta fish. He'd fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized. View quote
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness. View quote
Daniel Pinchbeck
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation. View quote
Gerard De Nerval
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. (Georgette Heyer)
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman. View quote
Lil' Kim
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them. View quote
Lactantius
Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically. View quote
Guillaume Canet
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. View quote
Poppy Z. Brite
Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. View quote
Meg Rosoff
Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you. View quote
Stacy London
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. View quote
Alfred Loisy
On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. (Bill Budge)
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. View quote
Charles W. Chesnutt
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. View quote
Cal Thomas
Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led. View quote
Diana Quick