#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

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

What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#essential #given #moments #only #pure

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

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#both #criticism #doubt #enslave #faith

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