#mirror

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#beautiful #child #divorced #gift #give

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#face #find #forced #glimpse #going

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#material #mirrors #perfect #seemed #stand

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#civilization #invention #know #mirror #you

When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#doing #draw #expression #face #i

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four! ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#both #four #front #i #just

In old age, mirror is not a friend! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#age

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror... ↗

— John Geddes

#ice #mirror #reflection #beauty

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#life

Sometimes answeres can change everything. ↗

— Rhianna Pratchett

#change