Quotes About Contemplation

People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.

See into life, don't just look at it

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.

It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.