Quotes About Contemplation

I can only quote Xenocrates, dear lady. 'I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

I tipped my head.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade. I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself." At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky. You'd think it over, whatever it was.

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.

Don't we all look up at the same stars?

Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with his self

Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.

Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.

The best dreams are had while awake.

Is there any peace without a prayer?

Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart.

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

You don´t need internet connection to connect to God.

Wisdom comes from the internalization and reflection of experience.

Your life will reflect what you persistently think about.

In the stillness of the ocean, I wonder at the dancing waves.

Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.

I love brooding in a bucolic valley about your endless compassion.