Reflection Quotes

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Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted… — Joyce Tenneson
Your heart works for you, but do you work for your heart? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived… — BrenÃ© Brown
All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear… — Marianne Williamson
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they… — Nicolas Chamfort
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom… — Alexander Hamilton
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want… — Lori Earley
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. — Tony Hsieh
The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need. — John F. Kennedy
Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your… — Eric Hoffer
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I' — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. — Seneca the Younger
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as… — Bill Walton
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind… — Joseph Campbell
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality. — Ram Dass
When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got… — Ram Dass
Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. — Robert M. Pirsig

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