John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

The world is a mirror for us – whatever you say about others is really how you feel about yourself.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look in the mirror.' When you are alone and you look in a mirror you never put on a pleasing smile. Well, you don't, do you?

You know what keeps me humble? Mirrors!

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.