Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.
I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Look at these cliffs! Some are abrupt and unpredictable. Some other are soft and with smooth slopes. Yet, they all have the same purpose: either to lure you and bring you down or to teach you how to stand up, firmly, on their rims while contemplating...
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is ...
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.
The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
