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As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

— Indra Devi

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

— Leon Jouhaux

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

— Lao Tzu

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

— Marcel Marceau

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

— Bruce Babbitt

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

— Loren Eiseley

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

— Brigham Young