Quotes About Contemplation

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.

I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.

I hope people will think very carefully about the future.