Mirrors Quotes

• Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Dancing, Just Dance

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• Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.

  Jacques Barzun

  Feelings, Gadflies, Dodge

  "Bernard Shaw in Twilight" by Jacques Barzun in "The Kenyon Review", Volume 5, No. 3 (pp. 321-345), Part II, www.jstor.org. Summer 1943.

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• The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Stars, Spring, Greatness

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• Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.

  MacDonald Harris

  Dark, Thinking, Light

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• When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

  Richard Branson

  Mother, Reflection, Attention

  Interview with Harry Jarman, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.

  Kabir

  Cities, Blind, Illusion

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• You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

  Alek Wek

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Watches

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• My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

  Paul Klee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Paul Klee (2015). “Paul Klee”, p.18, Parkstone International

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• The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

  Robertson Davies

  Past, Order, Have Faith

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Inspiration, Shadow, Poet

  A Defence of Poetry (written 1821) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Twain 104

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• The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Thinking, Light

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Faust: Parts one and two”

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• That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Race, Giving

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• We live in a house of mirrors and think we are looking out the windows.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Thinking, House, Window

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• I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

  Robert Breault

  Religious, War, Differences

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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any

  Confucius

  Wise, Heart, Men

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• The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

  Ovid

  Hate, Sight

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• I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

  Tracy Morgan

  Self, Who I Am, Looks

  "Tracy Morgan ‘Cop Out’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. February 22, 2010.

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• The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.

  Rumi

  Perfection, World, Imaging

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

  Zhuangzi

  Water, Mind, Taoism

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The world is only a mirror. You will only see in the world what you're prepared to see in yourself-nothing more and nothing less.

  Robert Holden

  World, Prepared

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.6, Hay House, Inc

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• You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fool, Appearance

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• You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Eye, Fighting, Winning

  "Wladimir Klitschko: Dr Feelgood has a cure for David Haye's disrespect". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.

  Thomas Dreier

  World

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