Reflection Quotes

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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even… — Paulo Freire
Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our… — James Redfield
If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to… — Rumi
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. — Bruce Lee
Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest… — Terry Goodkind
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everything in life should be done with reflection. — John Adams
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Youâ€™re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youâ€™re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the… — Andre Breton
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, thatâ€”at the momentâ€”I was all… — Charlaine Harris
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us… — Albert Einstein
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. — D. H. Lawrence
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the… — Truman Capote
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him? — Bill Watterson

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