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Quotes About Contemplation

The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.
~ Grace Willows
Actually it's just a thought in your mind. Please put in clear your mind with that thoughts.!!
~ Qasim Raza Qadri
A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.
~ Raheel Farooq
My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.
~ Brahmananda Patra
The only person who can truly persuade you is yourself. You must turn the issues over in your mind at leisure, consider the many arguments, let them simmer, and after a long time turn your preferences into convictions.
~ Milton Friedman
Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I've never cared much for call and response. Sometimes I will think of something to say and then I ask myself: is it worth it? And it just isn't.
~ Miranda July
My religion: Very seldom do I feel a need for the presence of God. I don't pray and I don't know how to pray. When I enter a church, I try to pray, but I can't tell if I succeed or not. But often I have religious "attacks": the desire for isolation, for contemplation far from other people. Despair. The desire (and the hope) for asceticism.
~ Mircea Eliade
Caci asta mi se pare lucrul cel mai greu de invatat in contemplarea iubitei: sa stii cum sa-i privesti ochii. Uneori, privirile noastre lovesc atat de nepriceput oglinda ochilor iubitei , incat o tulbura, aburind-o; sau, si mai grav, fac ochii opaci, le dau un luciu de teracota, de smalt colorat. Si sunt, de asemenea, priviri crancene, care smulg retina sau o patrund salbatic, sangerand-o, sau o intuneca..
~ Mircea Eliade
Arta de a divaga – È™i a r?mâne totuÈ™i în veÈ™nicie – mi se pare un secret pe care majoritatea modernilor l-au uitat
~ Mircea Eliade
La simple contemplación de la bóveda celeste basta para desencadenar una experiencia religiosa.
~ Mircea Eliade
Un gând izvorât ÅŸi organizat în singur?tate e întodeauna un gând neterminat.Nu pentru c? cel care îl gândeÅŸte nu are curajul sau puterea s?-l duc? mai departe.Ci pur ÅŸi simplul pentru c?,dup? o anumit? margine,nu-l mai interseaz?.
~ Mircea Eliade
It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
~ Miriam Toews
She lived in her head and that's why it glowed.
~ Miriam Toews
When we know something we stop thinking about it, don't we?
~ Miriam Toews
Let's not waste time by dwelling on the unknown. But that's what thinking is
~ Miriam Toews
But that's what thinking is, says Ona. And thinking is one of the things we want to be free to do. The things we know to exist or to be true don't require us to dwell on them.
~ Miriam Toews
During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.
~ Miriam Toews
Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?
~ Mitch Albom
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
~ Mitch Albom
What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God.
~ Mitch Albom
Remember this, Francisco," he said. "The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.
~ Mitch Albom
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now. Is today the day I die? he said.
~ Mitch Albom
The bride waits here, she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming to drift away. This is the moment you think about what you're doing. Who you're choosing. Who you will love. If it's right, Eddie, this can be such a wonderful moment.
~ Mitch Albom
How can you ever be prepared to die? Do what the Buddhists do. Every day have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
~ Mitch Albom