Quotes About Contemplation

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

I don't think of myself all the time.

In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

Sometimes isn't it better to have some time and space to ourselves? We will have new perception of things.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.