Acontemplative Quotes & Sayings

Do you have a sleeping bag?"
I stared at him. "No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of '06. — Kim Harrison

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on. — John Haynes Holmes

I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do. — Lucas Till

The other thing? You mean the invisible hand on my bells and whistle? Yeah, I don't need anyone knowing that shit. Sir. — K.F. Breene

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage. — Debra Dean

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself. — Jack Kornfield

This is your work now, Gian had thought, strewing death about him, but only live and some day, home again, turn your hand to something better, and in Sea-john life will be good, and safe, and full of love. — Kai Ashante Wilson

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain. — Swami Vivekananda

From the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.
We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that. — Jay Woodman

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact. — Rhonda Byrne

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless. — John Ruskin