Quotes About Contemplation

I do not ordinarily hunt for a cave in the middle of the biggest excitement and most intense action, but this seemed to hit me in a new spot or something, and anyhow there I was, trying to arrange my mind. Or maybe my feelings. All I knew was that something inside of me needed a little arranging.

I dropped the book on the table, stretched for a good yawn, went and opened the window and stood there looking down on the street long enough to let the sharp cold air make me feel like blankets and hopped for the hay.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts, Robert Browning.

Almost all of my really good times have been silent but have had to end.

to let us know what we're thinking.

To realise that one has nobody in the world—that is a sobering thought.

Slow and the world will reveal itself, his father had once said during a walk in the woods, explaining how chaotic and fast things had become, how the world is harder to understand because it operates at a speed non-conducive to humanity and how in hectic moments the act of slowing down, closing your eyes, taking a breath, offers a fresh perspective.

He looked down at the mouse he held in his left hand.

Primera conclusión: para leer, hay que aprender a estar quieto.

Desde luego, los domingos son idiotas.

Para pensar hay que dejar de tomar decisiones.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Vem sentar-te comigo, Lídia, à beira do rio. Sossegadamente, fitemos o seu curso e aprendamos Que a vida passa, e não estamos de mãos enlaçadas. Enlacemos as mãos...

Here is where people, One frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).

Take a note of that his Lordship says he will turn it over in what he is pleased to call his mind.

anotar en un cuaderno de tapa dura mis pensamientos, observaciones o cualquier cosa interesante que alguien dijera o hiciera.

no estoy seguro; ¿tú qué piensas?".

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Bobby noted in his journal.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.