Quotes by Mirrors ...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond. [...] We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. [...] As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone. Muriel Barbery fatecrazymirrors Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. Muhammad Iqbal mirrorssightheart We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were able to become aware of the fact that we are only ever looking at ourselves in the other person, that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. Muriel Barbery crazymirrorspeople Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. Muhammad Ali kentuckymirrorskids To stay young, Nanao Sakaki breakmirrorsworld Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable. Muhammad Ali fightingmirrorssports Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self. Nancy Etcoff mirrorsselfworld It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence. Naomi Klein mirrorsdoorsmoving The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution. Naomi Klein mirrorsherodream Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them. Naomi Shihab Nye mirrorsmoonheart If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls. Naomi Shihab Nye mirrorsmorningmen I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along. Naomi Watts growingmirrorslooks Life is a mirror of your consistent thoughts. Napoleon Hill consistentmirrorslife-is To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror. Nassim Nicholas Taleb inabilitymirrorslooks Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object. Natalie Goldberg mirrorsworrythinking It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw. Natasha Lyonne mirrorswould-betrying As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works. Natasha Lyonne mirrorshousetrying Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. Nathaniel Hawthorne echoesmirrorsreflection Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror. Napoleon Hill powerfulmirrorsself It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only. Napoleon Bonaparte mirrorsmistakemen«6465666768697071727374»
