Reflecting Quotes
260 Reflecting quotes by 235 unique authors
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Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.
— Unknown Author
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality…
— Seth Godin
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The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
— Bruce Lee
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We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
— Natalie Goldberg
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Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able to…
— Neel Burton
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Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten…
— Winston Churchill
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The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.
— Peter Kreeft
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I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous…
— Ernest Holmes
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Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own mind, and we…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two…
— Georges Simenon
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Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and…
— Isaac Newton
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I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
— Vincent de Paul
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In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such…
— Timothy Keller
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Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my…
— Lee Friedlander
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The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying…
— Natalie Goldberg
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I've been dreaming of mirrors. Millions of mirrors, reflecting people to death.
— Jim Steinman
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The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a…
— Michael Muhammad Knight
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A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and…
— Robert Reich
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At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;…
— Heinrich Heine
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My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work…
— Joyce Tenneson
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Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve helped shape their…
— Bristol Palin
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I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how…
— Helen Fielding
Who Wrote These Reflecting Quotes
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