The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

By Josef Pieper

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

By Kurt Vonnegut

Have you ever asked yourself this question "what can God do through me?" The preacher has no platform if the people has no sense of mission.

By Patience Johnson

there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.

By Helen Simpson

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

By Elizabeth Kostova

If nobody else will give you a platform, build your own!

By Suzette Vearnon

After that there was silence for a while, only the sound of the shovel biting into the earth and the hissing splatter of the loose dirt.

By Cornell Woolrich

Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.

By Kamila Shamsie

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

By E. Lockhart

Don't let other people's template of beauty be your standard. You create your own standard for yourself. Be healthy, and be strong.

By Janna Cachola

I follow Plato only with my mind

By Robert Francis

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

By Rachel Carson

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

By David Hume
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