Quotes About Reflections

Siento que la vida exige emociones, no reflexiones.

Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography entitled The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Become a beautiful thinker. Commit to making each of your thoughts a thing of beauty. Devote yourself to coming up with stunning insights, ideas and reflections that are outright masterpieces.

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 the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

Class reunions were about curiosity; about satisfaction at the avoidance of the mistakes of one's contemporaries, now revealed in their emerging life histories; about reflecting on the ravages—and injustices—of time; and of realizing, perhaps, how strange and random are the twists and turns of fate.

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 reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.

I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.

On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.

Such were my reflections on the way to Richmond in a hansom cab. Richmond had struck us both as the best centre of operations in search of the suburban retreat which Raffles wanted, and by road, in a well-appointed, well-selected hansom, was certainly the most agreeable way of getting there.

You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections of the present. They disappear very quickly. You should read more old books. The classics. Goethe. What is merely new is the most transitory of all things. It is beautiful today, and tomorrow merely ludicrous.

For the rest of the night, all I could think about was how many heads had lain on those pillows before my own.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

Dates were like deep friendships filmed in timelapse, one-night stands were like express-courtships from courtship to dissolution... When I'd entered my last relationship at twenty, we'd all been new and shiny. Now I was meeting people who had... stories.

Bücher sind ja, irgndwie, MenschnReste -

What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

They may be dreams of the feverish mind. They may be phantoms wrapped in the garments of memory.

She seemed to him a long spill of dark water, a black surface shattered with ephermal reflections of light.

In his second night in his room in the Salt Tower, Kit had tried to make his escape through the reflections in the narrow windows; he'd been unable to touch the power of the Darkling Glass at all, and he had wondered at how easily the iron rings on his fingers quelled all the strength he knew he had in him.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

Yes, that's the worst of it. It's a desperately vexatious thing, that after all one's reflections and quiet determinations, we should be ruled by moods that one can't calculate on beforehand.

Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities. They emerge from realms beyond what the eye can see.

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Where there is neither light nor darkness, there God can cast His reflections. That seems to you impossible, because you are neither light nor dark; If you were either you would know your opposite -- and the neuter state where the two join hands. But that is too deep for you and too deep for the world of twilight people.