#reflection

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#love #might-have-been #nostalgia #regret #self-reflection

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#blues #come #got #kind #music

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#been #god #human #human personality #ideal

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attitude-towards-life #confidence #content #contentedness #inspirational

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you. ↗

— Charles Manson

#father #i #i am #jailhouse #made

He's got a can up there,' Richard said. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#reflection #wonderful #nature

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reflection #beauty

Oh fair enough are sky and plain, But I know fairer far: Those are as beautiful again That in the water are; The pools and rivers wash so clean The trees and clouds and air, The like on earth was never seen, And oh that I were there. These are the thoughts I often think As I stand gazing down In act upon the cressy brink To strip and dive and drown; But in the golden-sanded brooks And azure meres I spy A silly lad that longs and looks And wishes he were I. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#nature #pool #reflection #reflections #river

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#reflection #vampire #dreams

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#journaling #knowledge #reflection #education