Mirror

Jan. 12th, 2023 05:00 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

―Simone Weil, Waiting for God



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Nighttrain

Aug. 2nd, 2021 01:41 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind glass. My face and the faces of other travelers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”

—Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Reflection

Feb. 18th, 2020 01:43 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“The beginning of this love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

—Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirror

Jan. 31st, 2020 01:11 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“I walked away from the mirror.
it was morning, it was afternoon, it was night

nothing changed
it was locked in place.
something flashed, something broke, something
remained.

I walked down the stairway and
into it.”

—Charles Bukowski, “Cut While Shaving”



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Birds

Jan. 4th, 2019 03:33 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:


“Getting older and older, I still stand here at this window, watching as if never having watched anything like it before—the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on the cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling through fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it—as if from the other side of a mirror—snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.”


—Frederick Franck, “Behind the Mask,” Parabola, Volume 20, Number 2: 1995



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Birds

Jan. 4th, 2019 11:55 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Getting older and older, I still stand here at this window, watching as if never having watched anything like it before—the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on the cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling through fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it—as if from the other side of a mirror—snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.”

—Frederick Franck, “Behind the Mask,” Parabola, Volume 20, Number 2: 1995

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Laurel and Hardy, Ariana Grande, or the Salvation Army Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“Whenever I look in the mirror, I think, “Wow, this mask makes me look just like my father.”

—Sherman Alexie, Twitterfeed, 1/14/12

 mirror4wp

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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