If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard. — Mike Brown Copy Share Image
Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed ! And the same applies… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Lucien paused, and I found him smirking at me, making the scar even more brutal. 'Were you admiring my sword, or just… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
There is a ripple effect to the gospel that’s inevitable. There’s a ripple effect to true grace. It doesn’t lead us to… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's… — Brandi Chastain Copy Share Image
The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
