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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read (Contemplation Quotes)
The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: They rest not day nor night. His servants serve Him, and see His face (Contemplation Quotes)
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world (Contemplation Quotes)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life (Contemplation Quotes)
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation (Contemplation Quotes)
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love (Contemplation Quotes)
Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation (Contemplation Quotes)
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life (Contemplation Quotes)
Quiet, the Unicorn, In contemplation stilled, With acceptance filled; Quiet, save for his horn; Alive in his horn; Horizontally, In captivity; Perpendicularly, Free (Contemplation Quotes)
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next (Contemplation Quotes)
There are two functions of the soul, contemplation and practice, according to the general division of objects; some of which only entertain our speculations, other employ our actions (Contemplation Quotes)
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs (Contemplation Quotes)
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation (Contemplation Quotes)
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth (Contemplation Quotes)
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice (Contemplation Quotes)
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment (Contemplation Quotes)
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind (Contemplation Quotes)
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation (Contemplation Quotes)
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated (Contemplation Quotes)
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action (Contemplation Quotes)
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation (Contemplation Quotes)
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life (Contemplation Quotes)
I feel like I’m stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it’s always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity (Contemplation Quotes)
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it (Contemplation Quotes)
It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible (Contemplation Quotes)
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility (Contemplation Quotes)
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable (Contemplation Quotes)
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation (Contemplation Quotes)
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry (Contemplation Quotes)
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul (Contemplation Quotes)