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Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.
When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.
Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.
So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."
I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.
I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.
I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.
If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."
I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.
I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?
Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.
Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Today I saw a guy who looked like me in a funhouse mirror. He looked at me like, Hey, that's how I look reflected in the pond!
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.
If you can't look in the mirror and genuinely love 100% of what you see, how can you possibly say "i love you" to someone else.
Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.
When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.
Sometimes you gotta look yourself in the mirror and say, 'You are the prettiest princess in all the land.' I do it once a week.
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
... reality stands before them, yet they don't see it, because what you call real is just the mirror image of your expectations.
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.
Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.