Reflection Quotes

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Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the… — Paolo Soleri
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the… — Frederick Lenz
In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. — Frederick Lenz
Reincarnation is an apprehension of a movement and the movement occurs in time. Without time, there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a reflection of time… — Frederick Lenz
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied — Confucius
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You… — John Henry Newman
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why… — Cesare Pavese
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. — Pliny the Elder
Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in… — William Shakespeare
The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. — Eric Hoffer
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the… — Edmund Spenser
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! — Euripides
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen… — Samuel Johnson

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