It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
The killers fled with their axes like mirrors, the birds no longer have where to hang their songs.
“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
Art is not a mirror which reflects the world, but a hammer with which we give it shape.
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.