Quotes About Contemplation

But, without a doubt, my favourite thing? It's sitting in a change room like this after a match. There's no time frame on how long you'll sit there. There's no formality. You're just enjoying each other's company, thinking about cricket.

I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

I want people to think through issues. I'm just tired of blind alignment.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

I could have had eight or nine world titles at least, and you do think about that at times.

I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.

I don't like social media at all, to be honest.

To be honest, it's true that revenge breeds more revenge, so the Rainbow Taxi crew had to think hard about what to do and how to resolve it.

To be honest, I have never thought about the intricacies of a script.

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.

Just breathing in and out suddenly seemed to require a series of massive, separately considered decisions, as if each small action of mine had abruptly become huge compared to all the ones the dead man was not taking.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I wish I could be built so that stupidity and dullness wouldn't bother me as much, but I just can't help it. It may sound paradoxical, but with time one wishes to be a hermit instead of always being around people. - Doctor Doris Maza

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

once more, I am flat out on a slab of oolitic limestone, absorbing the dusk leaking blue through its tall net of branches

I read obituaries every day to learn what sorts of lives are available to us, to see an entire life compressed into a few column inches, to fit the whole story in my eye at once.