The mind is never more highly gratified than in…

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go…

— Edward Abbey

There's something when you're always immersed in the natural landscape where it becomes your healer, in a way, at the same time that it…

— Shirin Neshat

“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space”

— Khalil Gibran

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John…

— Ann Coulter

It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks…

— Charles Dickens

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

— Anonymous

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

— Nhat Hanh

As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands,…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

— George Herbert

It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way…

— Ramakrishna

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

— John Heilpern

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to…

— Fernando Pessoa

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for…

— Thomas Jefferson