"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
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"I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'"
"The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak."
"I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am."
"Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors."
"Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit --- Kid, it was tasty."
"Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror."
"Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working."
"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror."
"At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it."
"Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves."
"Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?"
"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!"
"When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all."
"What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves."
"Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."
"The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine."
"Have you said 'I LOVE YOU' to * Yourself * today? If YOU Haven't, then you can certainly imagine how many others haven't. The World is simply a reflection of who we are. Perhaps it's time to Fully Embrace and Love the One you see in the mirror. This 'Reflection' is The Greatest Gift we can give to each other. Infinite Love to All."
"The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see."
"The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror."