You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how I'm going to be' and start demanding more from yourself. In spite of everything that this system has thrown at us, we still have to live at the end of the day. We still have to find purpose and find ways to prosper and make a profit so you have to find ways to stand on your own two feet and fulfill your potential as a black man or black woman on this planet no matter how marginalized or oppressed you may be.
Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.
Hey, Rosalie? Do you know how to drown a blonde? Stick a mirror to the bottom of a pool.
What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.
There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.
We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that ideal might be and most of the people that I'm photographing are selling something, you know whether they're on the front of an album cover or a magazine or they're a corporate person ready to switch companies or a doctor selling a skincare line. . . so I want to help them achieve that.
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.
Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.
It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.
If you are honest with yourself and if you want to like what you see in the mirror, is you have to say what you really believe.
Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A. M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix. . . I would study the curls in the mirror, impressed with both the appliance and my newfound ability to use it. Then, without fail, at the last second before leaving for school, I would ask myself, "Am I supposed to brush it out or leave it?" Why could I never remember" That feeling of "I'm pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I'm just gonna do it anyway" is part of the same set of instincts that makes me such a great cook.
The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
There is no Bodhi tree, Nor stand of a mirror bright. Since all is void, Where can the dust alight
If anything, the way that you feel is a direct indicator of how far we've come from our symbiotic relationship with nature. In that way, when someone hangs a mirror to every single blemish that's on us, it makes you really reassess what your morals are.
What does a mirror look at?
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.