Quotes About Contemplation

Savitar stroked his chin. Interesting, isn't it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? The muzzle vanished. They're on crack. Savitar shook his head. Anyone else on crack?

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

I don't really have a social life.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything.

I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.