"Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are."
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"I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'"
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"The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there."
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"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!"
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"When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed."
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"The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others."
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"You can expand your awareness in many ways, and as you do, your brain will evolve. It will grow physically by developing new neural pathways, synaptic connections, and even new brain cells. Perhaps more importantly, it will evolve to mirror the expansion of your mind into new, creative areas."
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"I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company."
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"We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be."
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"Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment."
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"No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it."
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"Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror."
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"What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp."
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"You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new."
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"Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself."
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"Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence."
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"The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself."
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."
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"Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action."
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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."
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