Quotes About Contemplation

One world at a time. —Thoreau, on his deathbed

back to the hotel, and that was why he'd

The old man wasn't quite gone yet. His lungs gurgled. Rudy was hungry. He checked the refrigerator and found a recent deli bag of sliced turkey. He sat on the bed, finished the turkey, and watched the traffic crawling on the street outside as he waited for Keyes to die.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

The examined life examines death.

Now, more often than not, contemplating the far future leaves me with a feeling of calm and connection, as if my own identity hardly matters because it has been subsumed by what I can only describe as a feeling of gratitude for the gift of experience

In the contemplative garden, the troubled robot sat in the ruddy sunlight and felt warmth on his metal skin. This was another thing that humans seemed to enjoy, but he did not understand why. Even with his sensory enhancement module, it just seemed like heat.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

Doing nothing when nothing is happening is no relaxation.

What is the most important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It's thinking!

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is why most people would rather die than think.

Cuál es el trabajo más importante y valioso que realizas? La primera vez que escuché esta pregunta no estaba seguro de la respuesta. Luego descubrí que era pensar. Pensar es el trabajo mejor pagado que realizas dado el concepto de consecuencias.

There is a saying, "There are those who think. There are those who think they think. And then there is the vast majority who would rather die than think.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker...was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

We must know before we can love. In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

I stopped talking and stared into the distance. Hold on, I whispered. I think I'm about to be brilliant. -Nina Tanleven, The Ghost Wore Gray

Bicycling, the way I think of it, is solitary, and if it's going to stand for anything in a narrative, it might as well be the solitary experience of being alive.

Write on a screen that has no Internet access.

There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more 'God' than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness, attention, contemplation, hesitation and revival.

It is certainly quite wrong to read a poem in a hurry, as if it were a telegram.

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.