Reflection Quotes
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"We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust."
"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."
"When tragedy hits close to home, like your neighbor’s house, it really makes you stop and think. And while you’re thinking, I’ll be speeding off in the getaway car."
"The last 33 years of my life have been a blur, like a hummingbird’s beating wings. Time flies, but not backwards, like a hummingbird can."
"Instead of sidewalks, why not sideruns? After all, the pace of life is faster than it has ever been, so I think our infrastructure’s nomenclature should reflect that."
"how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet"
"Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself."
"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."
"I see two women, one in a reflection in a window, and the other I see through the window, and it's like I'm looking at both my past and future at the same time."
"I can't throw away cologne because that is Nostalgia in a Bottle, the scent of yesterday, and it reminds me of her more clearly than her picture."
"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"
"People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out."
"It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth."
"In my memory her love shimmers, glimmers, and glitters the way light on black water reflects like diamonds, the treasure that was us."
"I watch you like a mirror, because I see in you what I see in myself. Who we love is a reflection of who we are."
"Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind"
"Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love."
"We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, “Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?"
"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."
"Habit rules the unreflecting herd."
"Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love."
"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."
"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 next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning."
"The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love."
"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."
"If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?"
"Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller."
"He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself."
"Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you."
"A netizen speaks normally about one’s life’s first priority or preference through the profile picture; it’s often the person seen therein, but it could also be the product on which s/he lays the hand on or seen as an inset in this selfish and materialistic world."
"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?"
"What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
"YOU ARE JUSTYou are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Once you reject fear, you will become the perfect candidate to receive and reflect Truth."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."
"The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know."
"Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived."
"You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?"
"Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings."
"COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits."
"Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it."
"Wisdom comes from reflection."
"There is nothing to fearFrom your reflection"
"Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns."
"Hubert (Humphrey) prepares for a major address by taking a deep breath."
"My mind to me a kingdom is,Such present joys therein I find,That it excels all other blissThat world affords or grows by kind.Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave."
"The past is a lake in which you add every day a glass with your attitudes. How crystal clear is water?"
"One fine day she left the past behind and gave privacy to the future. He took his now to take a walk, watch the sun, listen to good music, spread smiles and be grateful!"
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