Quotes About Contemplation

Simple remarque. Personne, fût-ce chez les meilleurs chrétiens, ne semble chercher Dieu ni même y penser. On se met à table comme des chiens et on se met au lit comme des cochons. Impossible d'obtenir la moindre attention quand on parle de Dieu.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Day's weary toil is o'er; No worldly strife my heartfelt worship mars: Beneath the mystery of the silent stars, I tremble and adore.

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.

Sudarminto paused. He thought about what he should say if Amba had indeed read the whole Book of Centhini and, worse, the parts she was not supposed to.

A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.

Books think for me.

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.

Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

I was going to kill someone today. I just wasn't sure who when I woke up this morning. I do love mornings. So full of possibilities.

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

Simon looked at Jordan who was looking at Maia again. She had her back to them and was talking to Luke and Jocelyn, laughing, flinging her curly hair back. "Don't even think about it," Simon said, and got up. He pointed at Jordan. "You stay here." "And do what?" "Whatever Praetor Lupas do in this situation. Meditate. Contemplate your Jedi powers. Whatever.

James had never imagined that the hardest thing he would ever do in his life was nothing at all.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Sometimes it was lonely, living in silence.

Why this girl?" Hunter tossed a sliver of wood onto the flames. "Another will not do.

He stretched out an arm and watched the myriad emotions that crossed her face as she contemplated the spot beside him. She had slept beside him before, many times, but tonight was different. There was nothing to stop him from taking what he wanted. She had even bargained away her right to fight him. What she didn't seem to realize was that there had never been anything to stop him.

Hmm?" She stopped and looked back.