Quotes About Contemplation

Be silent, or say something better than silence.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.

Allow not sleep to close your eyes Before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone?

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name philosophers, and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

Let X be the moon like a notary. Let Y be all things left unsaid.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Now I've done and said all I can do and say. I've come to the end of my personality, and now if I want anything it's peace, quiet. The ability, the opportunity to stay in my room and just stagger on. I suppose what I want, in a way, is death.

She's been absentmindedly saying the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

What was she, after all, except the memory of all she had done, telling her the sort of person she was and guiding her next act consistently? Without that, what was left but blind chance and leaves blown meaninglessly through the trees?

sages leave speculation to the idle, and contemplate Nature.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

We should note that mortification prepares for mental prayer, and the latter, in its turn, facilitates mortification. Therefore, prayer and mortification influence one another. Mortification and patience prepare for prayer through the purification and detachment they produce in us. They enable the person to take flight toward God, and this flight is prayer itself.

Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more consistent and lasting, and directed to eternity.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

I prefer slow conversations where words are counted like pearls, conversation with many pauses, pauses replacing words. An Unnecessary Woman

From Pessoa: "Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

I sit at my window this morning where the world like a passer-by stops for a moment, nods to me and goes.

Thou hast led me through my crowded travels of the day to my evening's loneliness. I wait for its meaning through the stillness of the night.