#contemplation

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age. ↗

— George Eliot

#maturity #age

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#contemplation #daily-life #dreaming #energy #living

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #contemplation #developed #developing #ended

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. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#added #contemplated #contemplation #course #enjoyment

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#contemplation #even #exhaust #few #few people

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation. ↗

— James Monroe

#contemplation #effect #felt #great #important

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#contemplation #government #into #just #lives

The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#life