... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence… — John F. Carlson 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
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Bettina Skrzypczak Copy Share Image
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
