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“There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.”

Stills Universe Our Lives Contemplating Chasing

Author:Leigh Newman

“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.”

World Life Lasts Time Our Lives Recognition Significance Intensity Contemplating Last Time Enjoy Life Absent Life Is Too Short Impermanence Appreciate Life Life Well Lived Life Is Fragile

Author:William Braxton Irvine

“I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.”

Knows Years Long Has Beens Culture Imagination Our Lives Subjects Emotional Intellectual Contemplating Angle Meaning Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.”

Ends Moments Seems Behinds Our Lives Events Raises Mere Chaos Leaving Accidents Isolation Overwhelming Contemplating Succession

Author:Karl Jaspers

“As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.”

Ifs Want Book Soul Age Father Our Lives Pages Old Age Contemplating Serene Dip Vantage Point

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.”

Want Bigs Attention Focus Our Lives Missing Lifetime Contemplating Hunk

Author:Wayne Dyer