Quotes About Contemplation

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

when I manage to be myself are so exhausting that all I can do when I'm not with Johan is sit around. Who'd have thought this was where I'd end up

I've said that Love annihilates desire and lust and ambition. Love and affection are such things that when they become active, even if someone were to bring a hundred houris, a hundred beautiful maidens of paradise, in front of you, they would seem as lifeless as mud bricks to you. Whenever you hear a word of wisdom or begin contemplation, that love and affection start to move.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

All the what ifs in life were encompassed in that long pause.

I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

One who looks outside, dreams. One who looks inside, awakens.

When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." —Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." —Antoine De Saint-Exupery See

We may suppress an objectionable thought about a friend, but the only way to really banish a thought is to consider it.

Having your head in the clouds, even for just a few minutes each day, is good for your mind, good for your body, and good for your soul.

Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself. Given half the stuff I think, that's probably a good thing

She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.

nobody answering

Kim doesn't ask any more questions after that. They sit there in silence, each lost in their own thoughts, and it reminds me of how Adam and I can be together but quiet and separate and I realize that they're friends now, friends for real. No matter what happens, at least I have achieved that.

To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A.

After a while, I stop and sit down and look out over the water. On the other side is Europe. Somewhere over there is him. And somewhere over there, a different version of me.

But then I go and look at the actual notes and