Quotes About Contemplation

There are three choices in life and sport - either you do it, you don't do it or you think about it. Most humans think about it. We will do it.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

I shut my eyes and pictured Grandma standing on the windowsill, looking down into the courtyard. What was she thinking before she jumped? She must have forgotten about her duties to her country, and her family too. Did she think about her granddaughter rushing back from Shandong for the funeral? Did she remember her blind sister? I wiped at my tears and took a deep breath.

Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.

Yes. Happiness, anxiety, sadness, anger and disgust. It's none of those. So it might be . . . wonder.

write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant way. Set them next to each other. See what happens.

Nixon sat thinking of his Texas statement that Lyndon Johnson might be dropped from the Kennedy ticket.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

After lunch Tiny returned to his fence work while Granddaddy and Fup repaired to the porch to sip a little Death Whisper, be still, and generally consider the drift of things. (55)

The advice in this book centers around two overarching messages: Be thoughtful in your actions and always conduct yourself with class. You will never regret either.

Treasure your experience of God, however it comes to you (2)

At home i let myself in and stopped, as if there was nothing for me to do and nowhere for me to go in the face of the pictures in my head.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.

It feels weird right at this moment to not be anybody's sidekick. Hard to explain, but when I look at the moon, it seems like it's paying attention to me, instead of me paying attention to it. It's way up there now. Hi, moon, I say silently to it. Yes, I'm high, it says back. The moon has a sense of humor.

Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said