Quotes of Musing - somelinesforyou

“ Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ”

- George Granville

“ The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. ”

- Miriam Makeba

“ I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious. ”

- Robert Plant

“ By contemplating on Me with an unwavering mind, disciplined by the practice of meditation, one attains the Supreme divine spirit, O Arjuna. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways… ”

- Richard Mitchell

“ One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. ”

- Tim Curry

“ Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. ”

- Buddha

“ Meditation and water are wedded for ever. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if He were near at hand. ”

- Owen Felltham

“ It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. ”

- Joseph Hall

“ He is divinely bent on meditation. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The Church's Restoration / In eighteen-eighty-three / Has left for contemplation / Not what there used to be. ”

- John Betjeman

“ It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. ”

- James Allen

“ The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. ”

- Dodie Smith

“ There are two sides to every coin. ”

- Unknown

“ While I was musing the fire burned. ”

- Bible

“ My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ”

- John Locke

“ What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Reflection makes men cowards. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time. ”

- Sam Walton

“ There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. ”

- Peter S. Beagle
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