Quotes About Contemplation

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

When I was in Canada, I had a lot of time to think.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.