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Quotes About Contemplation

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
~ Horace
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.
~ James Gould Cozzens
My favorite part of running is the thinking time.
~ Jane McGonigal
From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.
~ Jay Smith
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
~ Jim Hodges
...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
~ Johannes Kepler
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.
~ John Keats
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and its time to just unplug and look within.
~ Jonathan Cain
It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
~ Joseph Jarman
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
~ Jules Laforgue
I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.
~ Carmen Electra
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.
~ Caroline Myss
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
~ Charles Dickens
There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.
~ Dan Wakefield
I spend most of my free time under the house.
~ David Letterman
Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.
~ Matthew Henry
I enjoy my time alone.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?
~ Steven Wright
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
~ Gertrude Stein