Reflection Quotes
1603 quotes by 1185 authors
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in…
— Albert Einstein
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Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the…
— Annie Dillard
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I offer Emily half of my hit of acid- Love Saves the Day. It's my second or third time tripping, Emily's first, and she's understandably…
— Nick Flynn
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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
— William Wordsworth
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His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with…
— Angela Carter
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I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the…
— Sabrina Ward Harrison
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be…
— Anais Nin
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Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be…
— Charlotte Bronte
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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot…
— Alberto Manguel
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The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on…
— Alberto Manguel
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the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
— Albert Einstein
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant…
— Victor Hugo
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They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
— Neal Shusterman
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
— Marcel Proust
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People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
— Mark Haddon
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Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between…
— Michael Ondaatje
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