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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Roots, Giving, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Creativity, Quality, And Love

  Twitter post from Dec 23, 2016

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• People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

  Janet Frame

  Fear, People, Water

  Janet Frame (1980). “Scented gardens for the blind: a novel”, George Braziller

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Indulge In, Relief, Delight

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Water, Quiet

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge

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• How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Duty, Knows

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• Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

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• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Study, Spontaneity

  Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”

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• One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

  Agatha Christie

  Things In Life, Remember, Life Is

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• A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Community Living, Mirrors, Healthy

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• The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wisdom, Eye, Mirrors

  "Manuscript Found in Accra". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2012.

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• Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Self

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• Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dark, Moon

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

  Sylvia Plath

  Window, Moments, Shops

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.74, Faber & Faber

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• Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Leadership, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Fundamentals, Littles

  William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”

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• Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Mind, Poor

  Ramana Maharshi, C. G. (FRW) Jung (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, Shambhala Pubns

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• To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

  Carl Jung

  Discovery, Profound, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

  Edward Young

  Running, Soul, Literature

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.108

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• When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Weed, Flower, Picks

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2017

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• Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

  Roy Choi

  Cities, Guy, Saws

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• And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hopeless, Hopelessness, Felt

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• Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Moving, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.33, Paulist Press

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