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When we are looking for the meaning of life and love, we often turn to inspirational quotes. The best quotes for self-reflection are like looking into the mirror and seeing ourselves in a different light. These quotes help us deal with challenges in life and at work, helping us set goals for ourselves and understand our own motivations. Meetings with special people have great influence over our lives, as each person is meant to teach us something important about ourselves. Look at the surface of the water as if it were a mirror and see your true self. Read these quotes daily and experience their transforming power in your life.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn’t an easy road. I still don’t always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Shawn Ashmore
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
Margaret J. Wheatley

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.
Voltaire
Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.
Jim Rohn
Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.
Unknown
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
Byron Katie
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
Alan Cohen
The feeling of being ‘offended’ is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.
Bryant McGill
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski
Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.
Thierry Mugler
Living in a way that reflects one’s values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
Deborah Day
I couldn’t imagine that I’d ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.
Sylvia Day
People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
Bryant McGill
It takes a certain ingenuous faith – but I have it – to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
A.C. Grayling
Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.
Confucius
You are a mirror of yourself in others. Whatever you want, give. Be the best reflection of yourself.
Karen A. Baquiran
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Michel de Montaigne
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
Maynard James Keenan

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
Sometimes it’s hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
Anthony Liccione
Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.
Yvonne Woon
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke
I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
Sebastian Faulks
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.
T. Harv Eker
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
Paul Cezanne
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Claude Monet
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indra Devi
The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.
Cory Booker
People are sent into our lives to teach us things that we need to learn about ourselves.
Mandy Hale
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.
Wayne Dyer
The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination… until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.
Iyanla Vanzant
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
Bill Watterson
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.
Gautama Buddha
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
Siri Hustvedt
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that’s an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
Aaron Rodgers
People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Rumi
Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
Peter Drucker
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…
Jess C. Scott
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations, and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Honest self-reflection opens your mind to reprogramming, change, success and freedom.
Unknown
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart
The purpose of our spiritual journey is not to replace the darkness with light, rather it’s to integrate and honor all the parts of ourselves… all of life’s energies.
Deb Blum
In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.
Marcel Marceau
What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.
Stephen Richards
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
Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.
Deepak Chopra
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
Poppy Z. Brite
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside you is only a reflection of the world inside you.
Unknown
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
Vanna Bonta
There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?
Shannon L. Alder
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
David Levithan

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