Quotes of: Contemplative Keyword

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 it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance th...

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Do not fear the conflict, do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity, that is, in diff...

My Life in Christ: Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God: Extracts from the Diary of St. John of Kronstadt

Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death can lead to the realization that death is fearful on...

Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Happiness and Contemplation

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Renzo Piano

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

Iris And Ruby

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

Japanese Haiku

Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Saint Ignatius

How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli)

Manjit Kumar

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Alice Walker

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Nicolas Chamfort

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

John Dos Passos

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

James Harrington

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

John Maynard Keynes

Contemplating, thinking hard, I don't make judgement but i have decided

Aireen Pontillo

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

In Desert and Wilderness

My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Les Misérables

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines