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From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

~Alex Ebert

Topics: About Always Become Constantly Contemplative Feeling Filled Fleeting Moment Nostalgia Old Present Present Moment Started Very Years

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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Contemplative Ideal Life Live Very

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Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

~Anne Heche

Topics: About Before Contemplative Everything Just More Now Tend Thought Whatever

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The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Topics: Bearing Children Contemplative Counter Creative Creative Life Details Educating Feeding General House Human Human Relationships Life Myriad Normal Occupations Rearing Relationships Run Running Thousand Women

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In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

~Antonio Banderas

Topics: Am Contemplative Life Personal Personal Life Very I Am

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Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Barack Barack Obama Because Constitution Contemplative Context Crazy Driving Drones Every Except Exercising Good Good Thing Gut Launching Least Man Obama Official Powers President Resisting Thing War Washington Which A Good Thing

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In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

~Dave Morris

Topics: Contemplative Exciting Good Good Writing Happen Same Same Time Time Writing

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Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

~David Means

Topics: American Clean Contemplative Culture Deeply Often Paradox Pragmatic Problems Quick Simple Solutions Vast Want

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All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

~David Whyte

Topics: Alone Artistic Contemplative Difficult Great How Just Learn Moment Must Our Quiet Relationship Religious Say Silence Start Traditions You

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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: About Always Been Checking City Contemplative Fellow Going Had He Just Life Like Made Me Monastery Often Out Perhaps Seeing Somebody Suppose Think Thoughts Vague Who

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