You’re trying something new. That in itself is a reflection that you’re going in a good direction.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.

But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs

We must imitate Christ’s life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is

I think we’re very complicated and we’re capable of all kinds of things, and movies don’t reflect that.

Baseball is a mirror of life, reflecting our triumphs and failures.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to… fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time

Your envy is a reflection of your deep desire.

Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.god

A man’s conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Hell is truth seen too late.

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

What you are will show in what you do.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Our own life has to be our message.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.

What you wear on stage is a reflection of your artistry.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, ‘How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?’

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

I don’t really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too … Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Inherent force of matter is the power of resisting by which everybody, so far as it is able, perseveres in its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide

I’m a reflection of the community.