#reflection

Boring people are a reflection of boring people. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#boring people #people #reflection

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture. ↗

— Tori Amos

#culture #going #hearts #minds #music

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

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

#each #finds #found #healthy #life

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#i #i think #lot #me #person

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself. ↗

— Hope Davis

#how #look #more #older #realize

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

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection