Contemplation Quotes

Contemplation Quotes

Marian Wright Edelman

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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

John Mayer

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I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Charles Baudelaire

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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with ...

Emile Durkheim

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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change ...

Victor Hugo

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the ...

Elizabeth Janeway

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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that ...

Lewis H. Lapham

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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace ...

William Wordsworth

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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

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