Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. — Rachel Carson
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best,… — George Santayana
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and… — Spencer W. Kimball
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes… — Rene Descartes
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in… — Josef Pieper
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love… — Josef Pieper
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything… — Josef Pieper
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. — Honore de Balzac
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life. — Paulo Coelho
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. — Khalil Gibran
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. — Jeremy Narby
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Kobayashi Issa
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and… — Jane Austen
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all… — Tea Obreht
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that… — Simone de Beauvoir
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will… — Bertrand Russell

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