Quotes About Contemplation

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living

Each life needs its own quiet place.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

The world is a mirror representing the divine life.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.