Quotes About Contemplating Life

#1. Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earth
Contemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the void
Strangely it was in the dark that I found meaning for the light

Neil Leckman

#2. The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.

Paulo Coelho

#3. After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

Timothy Leary

#4. I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.

D.S. Mixell

#5. A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Ann Voskamp

#6. Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

Ryan Lilly

#7. Habits are actions that have been repeated enough to get engraved in your mind as well.

Ryan Williams

#8. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious

Yann Martel

#9. Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing.

Donna Grant

#10. The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

Adam Driver

#12. Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

#13. We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

Trent Reznor

#15. One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Vladimir Putin

#16. But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

Jude Morgan

#17. Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.

Gina Greenlee

#18. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.

Eric Bishop-Potter

#19. And to you, my dear visitors, I wish to speak of this youth, my brother, for there has been no appearance in my life more precious than this one, more prophetic and moving. My heart feels tender, and at this moment I am contemplating my whole life as if I were living it all anew ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

Ayn Rand

#21. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#22. I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Barbara Tuchman

#23. I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.

Olivia Sudjic

#24. Personal tranquility consists in the orderly structuring of the mind, which occurs whenever a person engages in the exquisite practice of contemplating personal experiences, harmonizing time spent with other people, reading great books, and working on self-improvement.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life's journey.

David O. McKay

#26. Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Wilfrid Sheed

#27. We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Norman Cousins

#28. A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#29. If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is 'it will probably be okay,' then run the other way because what you're contemplating is not a good choice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Ellen McLaughlin

#31. God's grace has nothing to do with any goodness of ours, who we are, what we know, or where we are in life. It has all to do with the nature of Him.

Leslie Haskin

#32. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Hsing Yun

#33. I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

Giuseppe Zangara

#34. It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell.

James A. Michener

#35. Delve deep to know your true self

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#36. Wave after wave of pleasure crashed into me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#37. The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

Patanjali