“My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado.… — Juliet Castle Copy Share Image
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of… — John Donne Copy Share Image
In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far youve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths,… — Harsh Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. — John Milton Copy Share Image
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
