Quotes About Contemplation

Silence is not lost time.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

We must look a long time before we can see

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny, grimly. 'I think about it all the time.

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

It takes me a long time to make a big purchase...

The first time I'd ever felt happy-and I mean ever-was when I'd been lying in my bed, staring out my window, watching the stars shine harmoniosly with one another.

Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.

I spend a lot of time near water.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.