Quotes About Contemplation

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relation of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this, our life!

It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay, but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine.

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

The best definition of humour I know is: humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. I think this is the best I know because I wrote it myself.