Quotes About Contemplation

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

I've never had a very great public life.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.