Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The law of flying was not discovered by the contemplation of things staying on the ground. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. — Russell M. Nelson 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
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“As long as your mind has the contemplation ‘the tiger is a violent animal’, it will remain violent. And if your contemplation… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“The contemplation of the life thus should be undertaken as a meditation on one’s own immanent divinity, not as a prelude to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface -… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. — Victor de Laprade Copy Share Image
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
“Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.” — Konrad Weiss Copy Share Image
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