Quotes About Contemplation

So I stared out at that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief

If regularly read and contemplated, your blessing will be one of the greatest helps you could ever have in overcoming temptation, figuring out your life's profession, finding your eternal companion, enduring your trials, and returning home to your Father and Mother in Heaven.

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

Si je vis seul, ce n'est pas tant par amour de la solitude que par haine du genre humain.

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Sus ojos muy abiertos contemplaban el espectáculo más fascinante del mundo: la muerte blanca, resplandeciente, que el universo le mandaba en forma de rompecabezas, piezas sueltas de un hermoso misterio.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

One of the most beautiful sights in my neighborhood is on High Holy Days when people walk to temple. Not only does this bring the traditional legendary weather, but it gives off a psychic signal to slow down.

I watched John Goodman in 'Barton Fink,' or Paul Giamatti stealing a scene in 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' and I would think, That's me in 10 or 12 years.

I've always been into asking the big questions; I'm the last guy out the door at closing time cuz I was sittin' around 'til the wee hours with the other ones who were asking the same things.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

'As The River Flows' is an important Assamese film with a message for everybody to ponder upon.

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

When I used to work my 9 to 5, I used to go to this abandoned house down the street. It was for sale, but nobody knew it. It was a mansion. Every day, or at least four days out the week, I would just stand on the porch of the house for like a year straight. That was around 2001 or 2002.