I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the… — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around… — Kayla Severson 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
Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my… — Rasun Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
