“Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.”
“Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.”
As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists (2007) by James Geary, p. 159
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
VI, 4
The Persian Bayán
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John (1911)
Novels published under the pseudonym Edith van Dyne
Context: I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and — and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another — a sequel — feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?
