#reflection

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#approves #brave #business #conduct #conscience

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection. ↗

— James Wolcott

#divide #folly #holding #into #just

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#disintegrating #entirely #force #formative #liberalism

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

— Edward Young

#like #pile #reflection #ruin #runs

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#mirror #reflection #life

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken. ↗

— Alan Sillitoe

#life-lessons #reflection #working-class #life

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#philosophy-of-life #reflections #life

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. ↗

— George MacDonald

#mirror #reflection #truth #life

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#life-lessons #loss #pride #reflection #regret

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#enemies #self-reflection #love