309 Quotes About Contemplation

There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. – Henry Cabot Lodge

No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter

We each possess the ability to engage in self-healing through contemplation and self-analysis.

I was starting to realize that just living simply, even deliberately, is not going wild.

Be alone with the sea for it is there you will find answers to questions you didn’t realize exist.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

The perfect battlefield is fought by blind men all their lives during the normal course of everyday affairs.—Kari, Teenage Valkyrie, Valhallan Midnight Rantdezvous

I cannot begin to say where this belief in Prophecy comes from. The future surely holds the same for us all and that is to return to the Goddess in death. What matters most is what we do while we are here! May the Goddess grant the Gryffin wisdom as they pursue their Destiny. By bringing them to contemplate their actions, she might teach them that happiness and fulfillment are concerns of the present as well as the future.

The journey inward is what gives meaning to the life outside ourselves. Not in any static, dogmatic, once-for-all way either, but in a way that grows and develops and changes to meet different circumstances, different stages of development. Contemplation is not an optional extra -- it is, as much as action, part of the very stuff of being human."