#reflection

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#eyes #only #others #people #reflection

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#again #concerned #house #i #live

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#am #because #career #i #i am

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely. ↗

— Joe Moore

#condone #creatures #culture #defenseless #does

Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#beard #detested #economic #economic forces #evolution

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? ↗

— Max Muller

#child #cold #despair #did #divine

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature? ↗

— Max Muller

#ask #creator #creature #divine #emitted

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cannot #character #clearness #discover #easily

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

#beauty #elevating #enthusiasm #i #know

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#deep #personal #reflection #such #voice