Primary purposes of a mirror:
(1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and
(2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.
-Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
-Hans-Georg Gadamer
I never entertained the dreadful thought
that my face was anything other than good and fair until,
in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
-Dafydd ap Gwilym
I often stood in front of the mirror alone,
wondering how ugly a person could get.
-Charles Bukowski
Let us be grateful to the mirror
for revealing to us our appearance only.
-Samuel Butler
I want to own something that really reflects me as a person.
Something like a mirror.
-Jarod Kintz
It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
-Phil McGraw
A mirror has no picture of its own.
It shows anyone who looks in it a picture
that he or she could never have seen without this mirror.
-Hajo Banzhaf
Almost always it is the fear of becoming ourselves
that brings us to the mirror.
-Antonio Porchia
Staring and staring into the mirror,
it sees many faces within its face -
the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man -
all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers,
and, like fossils, dead.
-Christopher Isherwood
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
-Henry Miller
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -
not our effects on others.
-Pearl Bailey
The human understanding is like a false mirror,
which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things
by mingling its own nature with it.
-Francis Bacon, Sr.
Mirrors are not the reflections they hold.
-William Douglas Horden
Feelings are never true.
They play with their mirrors.
-Jean Baudrillard
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
-Phil McGraw
A mirror has no picture of its own.
It shows anyone who looks in it a picture
that he or she could never have seen without this mirror.
-Hajo Banzhaf
Almost always it is the fear of becoming ourselves
that brings us to the mirror.
-Antonio Porchia
Staring and staring into the mirror,
it sees many faces within its face -
the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man -
all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers,
and, like fossils, dead.
-Christopher Isherwood
The world is the mirror of myself dying.
-Henry Miller
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -
not our effects on others.
-Pearl Bailey
The human understanding is like a false mirror,
which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things
by mingling its own nature with it.
-Francis Bacon, Sr.
Mirrors are not the reflections they hold.
-William Douglas Horden
Feelings are never true.
They play with their mirrors.
-Jean Baudrillard
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
not wanting to
overwhelm the mirror
I keep certain things from it
-John Sandbach
Look in a mirror and one thing's sure;
what we see is not who we are.
-Richard Bach
Look in a mirror and one thing's sure;
what we see is not who we are.
-Richard Bach
When the deluded in a mirror look
They see a face, not a reflection.
-Saraha
The mirror will only lie,
when you look at it through a mask.
when you look at it through a mask.
-Anthony Liccione
We are trying to change the reflection in the mirror
when we should be taking our attention back to ourselves
as that is where the reflection originates.
-Devrah Laval
The world of the ego is like a house of mirrors
through which the ego wanders, lost and confused,
as it chases the images in one mirror after another.
-David R. Hawkins
Everybody is looking at everybody else
a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
-Wallace Stevens
Life is for each man
a solitary cell
whose walls are mirrors.
-Eugene O'Neill
For I do not exist:
there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.
With every acquaintance I make,
the population of phantoms resembling me increases.
Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply.
I alone do not exist.
-Vladimir Nabokov
The maze of mirrors shatters before the wisdom's gaze.
-William Douglas Horden
a bundle of broken mirrors
-Ezra Pound
Every man carries with him through life a mirror,
as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
-W.H. Auden
In the dullness
the body is like the back of a mirror;
the soul is its polished face.
-Farid ud-Din 'Attar
So you sigh in front of mirrors
and cloud the surface.
-Farid ud-Din 'Attar
There have even been many men who drowned in mirrors.
-Ramon Gomez de la Serna
Being angry at the mirror won't change what it is reflecting.
If you want to see something different, be something different.
-Steve Maraboli
Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day.
You can ignore the small voice still inside you,
but your reflection will always have something to say.
-Ryan Lilly
Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day.
You can ignore the small voice still inside you,
but your reflection will always have something to say.
-Ryan Lilly
Simpler than writing
A history book - let a mirror
remember it all
-John Sandbach
For the most part I lived inside a mirror.
-Clarice Lispector
When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright.
I can scarcely believe that I have limits, that I am outlined and defined.
I feel myself to be dispersed in the atmosphere,
thinking inside other creatures, living inside things beyond myself.
-Clarice Lispector
I am also surprised to find as I gaze into the pale mirror with open eyes
that there is so much in me beyond what is known,
so much that remains ever silent.
-Clarice Lispector
Only by glaring into the depths of one's own reflection
can we find our true selves.
It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
-Paul Morabito
Neither the vision nor its reflection that must be polished,
but the mirror.
-William Douglas Horden
For years the dusty mirror has gone uncleaned,
Now let us polish it completely, once and for all.
-Yoka Genkaku
The mirror has the power of dispersing evil,
for, once it is forced to see itself as it is,
it bursts asunder at the horror of the sight:
"when evil recognizes itself it destroys itself."
-Jean C. Cooper
The real mirror is to see yourself without judgement.
-A. H. Almas
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
That's why I never apologize to my mirror.
-Stephen Colbert
When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright.
I can scarcely believe that I have limits, that I am outlined and defined.
I feel myself to be dispersed in the atmosphere,
thinking inside other creatures, living inside things beyond myself.
-Clarice Lispector
I am also surprised to find as I gaze into the pale mirror with open eyes
that there is so much in me beyond what is known,
so much that remains ever silent.
-Clarice Lispector
Only by glaring into the depths of one's own reflection
can we find our true selves.
It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.
-Paul Morabito
Neither the vision nor its reflection that must be polished,
but the mirror.
-William Douglas Horden
For years the dusty mirror has gone uncleaned,
Now let us polish it completely, once and for all.
-Yoka Genkaku
The mirror has the power of dispersing evil,
for, once it is forced to see itself as it is,
it bursts asunder at the horror of the sight:
"when evil recognizes itself it destroys itself."
-Jean C. Cooper
The real mirror is to see yourself without judgement.
-A. H. Almas
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
That's why I never apologize to my mirror.
-Stephen Colbert
The mirror allows every input to enter equally,
reflects each equally,
and cannot be tuned to receive a special kind of input.
It does not add anything to the input
and does not turn off receptivity to stimuli.
It does not focus on any particular aspect of input
and retune back and forth
but continuously admits all input equally...
-Claudio Naranjo and Robert Ornstein
Mirror?
That crystallized void that has in itself enough space
to go every ceaselessly forward:
for mirror is the deepest space that exists:
And it is a magic thing:
whoever has a broken piece can go with it to meditate in the desert.
-Clarice Lispector
Mirror is light.
A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.
-Clarice Lispector
Whoever looks at a mirror,
whoever manages to see it without seeing himself
whoever understands that its depth consists of being empty,
whoever walks inside its transparent space
without leaving the trace of his own image upon it-
that somebody has understood its mystery of thing.
-Clarice Lispector
is a mirror of an internal process seeking resolution.
-Richard Rudd
Two mirrors
reflect each other.
-A Zen Forest
Everyone in our life is acting as a mirror.
They are really reflecting back to us
what we have failed to acknowledge within ourselves.
-David R. Hawkins
You see yourself
in the mirror of a man.
-Ibn Arabi
We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend.
He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath
impedes the clearness of the reflection.
-Jean Paul Richter
They were looking in their own mirrors
too small for each other's face
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
I am only acting as a mirror to your life,
in which you can see yourself as you are;
then you can throw away the mirror;
the mirror is not important.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are my mirror.
When I am complete,
I see you as complete.
When I am not, you are not.
-Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
The relation between man and woman is the closest mirror.
When we get that right, we get everything right.
-Stephen Mitchell
Mirrors are the perfect lovers.
-Margaret Atwood
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
-Jean Cocteau
Giving back light
one becomes a mirror.
-Basava
I love mirrors.
They let one pass through the surface of things.
-Claude Chabrol
The mirror is even called the symbol of symbolism itself.
-G. Michaud
What does a mirror look at?
-Frank Herbert
Six mirrors keep staring at one another.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
It's called the Infinity Effect.
-Edward M. Wolfe
As the world stretches ten feet,
The old mirror widens to match it.
-Zen
Canst thou with him spread out the sky,
which is strong as a molten mirror?
-The Bible
Sometimes the soul is called the 'Mirror of God.'
-Max Muller
Since the whole world is the living mirror of God,
it is impossible to see anything aside from God.
-Sa'd al-Din Hamawi
If the mirror reflects the soul,
the then well-polished mirror is symbolic of the purity of the soul
as well as of knowledge consciousness and self-awareness.
-Adele Nozedar
Your heart is a polished mirror.
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it,
because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.
-al-Ghazzali
The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror -
going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.
- Chuang Tzu
The 'Mirror Mind',
or what the term represents,
perceives no thing whatsoever.
-Wei Wu Wei
The sight of the simple eye is a living mirror.
-John van Ruysbroeck
The shining forth of That which is Unconditioned
is as a fair mirror.
-John Ruysbroeck
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror...
if it has only the capacity to reflect.
-Andre Breton
If a mirror reflects not, of what use is it?
-Djalal ad-Din Rumi
It is because it is empty
that the mirror reflects an image.
-Wang Tong
The mirror does nothing, it simply reflects.
Your consciousness is only a mirror.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
The mirror is clear
to the extent that the one who peers into it is clear.
-John Sandbach
Every object is a mirror
which reflects what is looking.
-Wei Wu Wei
All appearances are verily one's own concepts,
self-conceived in the mind,
like reflections seen in a mirror.
-Tibetan Tantric Text
All existence is like a reflection in a mirror,
without substance, only a phantom of the mind.
When the finite mind acts, then all kinds of things arise;
when the finite mind ceases to act, then all kinds of things cease.
-Bardo Thodol
Just as a mirror reflects form,
so ultimate reality reflects awareness.
Such is the mirrorlike awareness.
-Jnanasiddhi-sadhana
If you really want to know who I am,
you have to be as absolutely empty as I am.
Then two mirrors will be facing each other,
and only emptiness will be mirrored.
Infinite emptiness will be mirrored:
two mirrors facing each other.
But if you have some idea,
then you will see your own idea in me.
-Chandra Mohan Jain, "Osho"
Mirror: A symbol of the causal body as a reflector of the atma-buddhi,
the Love and Wisdom of the higher planes.
-G. A. Gaskell
The Persian Magi carried mirrors as an emblem of the material sphere
which reflects Divinity from its every part.
-Manly P. Hall
The priests of the old Persian fire mysteries carried mirrors
as symbols of the etheric world and of their own clairvoyant powers.
-Manly P. Hall
Sufis regard the whole universe as comprising group of mirrors
in which the Infinite Being gazes at itself
in its manifold shapes
or else reflect in different degrees the radiation of the One Being.
-Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
Matter serves as a mirror upon which the Universal Soul
projects the images or reflections of its creations,
and thus gives rise to the phenomena of the sensible universe.
-Ralph Shirley
As in Aquinas the universe exists in a two-fold manner,
first ideally in the mind of God,
and secondly materially, externally to him,
so that in Creation the Almighty contemplates his own mind as in a mirror.
-W. Marsham Adams
Concave bronze mirrors are conspicuous among the Taoist symbols,
the belief being that "when evil recognizes itself it destroys itself."
-Elizabeth Goldsmith
the belief being that "when evil recognizes itself it destroys itself."
-Elizabeth Goldsmith
The creature called the p'o-ching, of 'Broken' Mirror,
was related to the phases of the Moon.
-Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
was related to the phases of the Moon.
-Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
