Reflection Quotes
1603 quotes by 1185 authors
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be…
— Anais Nin
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But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was…
— Barack Obama
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It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection…
— O. Henry
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal.…
— Laini Taylor
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Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after a brief reflection, 'that then is a…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be…
— Justina Chen
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What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you…
— Eckhart Tolle
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We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
— Annie Dillard
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And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The…
— Patrick Süskind
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..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for…
— Andrea Gibson
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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
— Alan Sillitoe
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a…
— Edmund Burke
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has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?
— Siobhan Dowd
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means…
— Erich Fromm
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I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your…
— Jeanette Winterson
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the…
— Ellis Peters
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The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.
— Francesca Lia Block
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