Quotes About Contemplation

A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

It's not much fun, you know, being a middle-aged woman, safe and protected, on a roof, thinking of other people in danger.

We take sight for granted and forget to look

su vida no se puede contabilizar sólo por los minutos que le restan, sino por las palabras no dichas.

Todo lo que había hecho en su vida antes era sentarse delante de un libro. A absorber ideas de otros, sobre todo.

Donde el entendimiento no ve más allá de uno mismo

Algunas conversaciones se tienen mejor en la oscuridad.

No leo. Releo. (I don't read. I re-read)

equidistante del entusiasmo y de la indiferencia y que, de tanto en tanto, por alguna exaltación modesta, se justifica.

There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?

Watchfulness is the path of immortality: Unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: Those who do not watch are already as dead. Those who with a clear mind have seen this truth, Those who are wise and ever watchful, They feel the joy of watchfulness, The joy of the path of the great. And those who in high thought and in deep contemplation With ever living power advance on the path, They in the end reach NIRVANA, The peace supreme and infinite joy. ~ Buddha

Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?

En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.

Peratta y Peloso se habían ido detrás de un culo, o poco más. Pero seguía pensando que las milanesas tenían menos contraindicaciones. Pobres hijos de puta, pensó o se dijo mientras masticaba.

Si a uno no lo asaltaba la melancolía, se podía caminar hacia el atardecer con pájaros sobre y en la cabeza o los oídos.

There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.

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

Daughter, your presence is a stay and consolation to me. Begin again in the Tenth Book; tell me, how does Aristotle define true happiness?" "Father, he tells us that true happiness is found in contemplation, whereas the common idea of happiness as pleasant amusements is fostered by the courts of tyrants.

true happiness is found in contemplation, whereas the common idea of happiness as pleasant amusements is fostered by the courts of tyrants.

thought; not that it mattered

We all have our midnight madnesses.

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.