Quotes About Contemplation

For a moment, the two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us.

But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don't feel like thinking.

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

He wasn't just Gat. He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. All that was there, in the lids of his brown eyes, his smooth skin, his lower lip pushed out. There was coiled energy inside.

Gat, mi Gat. Él es contemplación y entusiasmo. Ambición y café intenso. Me encantan los parpados de sus ojos castaños, su lisa piel oscura, el labio inferior que sobresale. Su mente. Su mente.

He is contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.

Bounce, effort, and snark. Contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. Sugar, curiosity, and rain...

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

With me the process is much more like bird-watching than like either talking or building. I see pictures. Some of the pictures have a common flavour, almost a common smell, which groups them together. Keep quiet and watch and they will begin joining themselves up.(quoting C.S. Lewis)

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

But lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.

Por muito que me esforce, não consigo desprezar todos esses séculos durante os quais nos dedicámos unicamente a dar uma última demão na definição de Deus.

Cuando se vuelve a ver a alguien después de muchos años, habría que sentarse, uno frente al otro, y no decir nada durante horas para que, al amparo del silencio, la consternación pudiese saborearse a sí misma.

La noia è pensiero in germe

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

If one doesn't worry, how does one understand?

I, though less optimistic, had supposed that knowledge would bring understanding. We had not realized that what the public loathes in homosexuality is not the thing itself but having to think about it

Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.