Quotes About Contemplation

Silence I wondered why Grandmother and Grandpapa could sit in Silence on the front porch She smoked a cigarette He didn't Sitting on the swing in Silence I washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen trying to figure out why they sat in Silence Then I got to be my own age with my own deck and my own person and I understood

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The

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drays. Never did he see one but that he thought of his

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

I must try this again, I thought; I must try again someday to sit still and not say a word. Maybe when I'm dead.

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and then you lean away. You make lists. You calculate how much it will cost. You tote up grievances, and pluses and minuses.

Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.

She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.

Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?

A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren't there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

Um homem nunca está mais sozinho do que quando está rodeado pelo passado.

it's good for the soul to stop and take a long look now and again at what really lasts.

She read in her room by the light of an oil lamp until mind and body gave way to fatigue.

turned it over. "Your

No," Morgana admitted, "I can't imagine

November afternoon in her

dead. Standing

She could slip into the storeroom from there for the belated alone.

permeated through the air. It was a long time before she spoke. A

deliberately blank. "Of

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3