We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.
Valerie TaricoTags: honesty reflection insight awareness
That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of an assault by images. It is not a defect that we are not seared, that we do not suffer enough, when we see these images. Neither is the photograph supposed to repair our ignorance about the history and causes of the suffering it picks out and frames. Such images cannot be more than an invitation to pay attention, to reflect, to learn, to examine the rationalizations for mass suffering offered by established powers. Who caused what the picture shows? Who is responsible? Is it excusable? Was it inevitable? Is there some state of affairs which we have accepted up to now that ought to be challenged? All this, with the understanding that moral indignation, like compassion, cannot dictate a course of action.
Susan SontagTags: photography compassion reflection action
There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
Susan SontagTags: suffering reflection violence
Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.
Kristi BowmanTags: inspirational light reflection possibility
Ruin still used Reen’s voice—it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing…it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she’d never actually seen herself.
Brandon SandersonTags: reflection
I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.
Neil GaimanTags: childhood reflection memory inpirational
Your life is a reflection… you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational success reflection
And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made, I still judge every joyous moment, every victory and revelation against those few seconds of living.
Tim WintonTags: life reflection fleeting-thoughts
They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
Kristin CashoreTags: reflection growth katsa po graceling
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
Dave MatthesTags: truth acceptance reflection
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