Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Alan Watts

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Aprilynne Pike

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Ashley Olsen

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

Dean Gilmour

Shakespeare was such a lover of theatre, and theatre is an illusion.

Sydney Smith

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Alexander Pushkin

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Albert Einstein

Time is an illusion.

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Elizabeth Janeway

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

Antonio Banderas

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

Anne Heche

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

Isaac Disraeli

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Thomas Merton

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.