Quotes About Contemplation

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Thought is the measure of life.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Proceed calmly in life.

But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

I have definitely had experiences where I can feel the shift from simply living my life to being slightly outside of my life and taking notes.

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

Stop thinking for once in your life!

A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

The interior life is often stupid.

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.