Quotes About Contemplation

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in life is to leave people alone!

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Build pockets of stillness into your life.

Life. Consider the alternative.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and a subdued tone.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.

They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.

I was so used to living inside my own world that I answered with whatever I had been thinking. If

not wanting contact with others" or "preferring to play alone." I can't speak for other kids, but I'd like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone.