309 Quotes About Contemplation

To see this way fosters not only gratitude but compassion for the creatures we behold. The sustained gaze required to find the adequate word engages us in contemplation and reminds us of the worthiness of what is given to us to witness.

John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.

Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives

I certainly do not fear for the life of literature. There will always be people born wired for books. Every age has its contemplatives.

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

Chaque atome d'un bruit dûr Exhale l'arome d'un fruit mûr.

Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.