My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here. — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Humanity may destroy the possibilities for life on earth unless the freedom and power that we have acquired are channeled in new… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“I thought more and more about impermanence and death - not in the form of a depressing nihilism, but as a contemplation… — Andrew Bowen Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“Except for shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul), engrossed involvement in any other forms of dhyan (contemplation), gives rise to the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
How you see yourself is a mirror into how you view other people, and that predicts your outcome of your luck with… — Gayla Leach Copy Share Image
“If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment… — Kailey Bright Copy Share Image
“. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.” — Erik S. Lehman Copy Share Image
In the world of thought, there is no truth. Everything is relative, contextual, subject to more and more analysis. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“An Archer must never lose focus. If the world bends Archer. It is in within in contemplation we soar the sky ~” — Patricio telman chincocolo Copy Share Image
When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness,… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
