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Reflecting Back Quotes

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

M.I.A.
Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Perception

By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

Shakti Gawain
Teacher, Mirrors, Reflecting Back
"Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative effects of others' actions. It is like a set of invisible mirrors that surround individuals, households or firms, reflecting back on them the consequences of their acts. The industrious will reap the benefits of their industry; the frugal the consequences of their frugality; the improvident and the profligate likewise. They receive their due, which is to say they experience justice as a matter of routine.

Tom Bethell
Blessing, Mirrors, Reflecting Back

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

John Piper
Heart, Reflecting Back, Done
John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.92, Multnomah

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

John Piper
Prayer, Reflecting Back, Radiance
John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.

Tom Bethell
Mirrors, Reflecting Back, People

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

Philip Yancey
Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Church
Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.83, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

Harriet Lerner
Jobs, Children, Reflecting Back

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

Nadya Suleman
Father, Reflecting Back, Childhood
Source: www.nbcnews.com

I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.

Lena Dunham
Thinking, Mirrors, Reflecting Back
"Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her New Book, Not That Kind of Girl, and What She's Learned From Her Sister". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2014.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

Jeffery Deaver
Years, Reflecting Back, People
Jeffery Deaver (2008). “The Bodies Left Behind: A Novel”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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