Quotes About Contemplation

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

I'm actually glad I didn't watch 'The Bachelor' or 'The Bachelorette' prior to being on them. I think if I'd watched them before being a contestant, I would've over-analyzed it or tried to be something else - tried to fit into that world. Because I was so green, I was just me, and I think it was really refreshing to the people watching it.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

The mental side of rehab is by far more difficult than the physical side of rehab. There's a lot of time when you are alone and a lot of time when you are contemplating, a lot of time to think. The mental side is the hardest part.

I find it's nice when I can be a listener and absorb things coming at me. It's important, especially for me, when so much of my job is about putting things out into the world. So those quiet moments are rejuvenating.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.

If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.

Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

On holidays, I spent time alone at home watching a movie, reading a book, and contemplating. Now that I think about it, if I hadn't had that time, I probably wouldn't have been able to do acting.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

Honestly, I've been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I behave. I lock myself in my hotel room every night.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Sometimes I have to sit and look back and think how far I've gone.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.