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Quotes About Contemplation

For me the end of the year is always a time to reflect and recharge my energies.
~ Gisele Bundchen
I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.
~ Harlan Ellison
Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.
~ Jo Ann Davis
The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.
~ Jose Saramago
It's my own space, my own time, when I'm just out there letting my thoughts go. It's part of my day like eating, and it's one of my favorite parts.
~ Louise Andrews Kent
It takes a long time for words to become thought.
~ May Sarton
To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.
~ Quentin Dupieux
The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.
~ Ralph Fletcher
He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.
~ Tyson Fury
If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
~ William Goldman
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.
~ Aldo Leopold
...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.
~ Amy Hill Hearth
If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.
~ Billy Connolly
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.
~ David Icke
"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.
~ David O. McKay
Spend some amount of time alone everyday.
~ Dalai Lama
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
~ Karen Gillan
Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.
~ Roma Downey
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.
~ Stephen Hawking
…beating time along the edge of thought.
~ Sylvia Plath
I have been thinking-- He chuckled. Always a dangerous thing for a woman to do, he said.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it's like there was some part of me standing back, watching, thinking, "Is this as good as it gets?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
We haven't stopped obeying. We just think first now." Isabel slapped the boy.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix