Quotes About Contemplation

I HAVE MEASURED OUT MY LIFE WITH COFFEE SPOONS. DO I DARE TO EAT A PEACH? DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?

The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.

Orospula?mak veya yaln?z kalmak: ??te fikir adam?n?n kaderi.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

uçurumdan kurtulman?n tek yolu ona bakmak, derinliÄŸini ölçmek ve kendini o boÅŸluÄŸa b?rakmakt?r.

Val la pena esser solo, per essere sempre più solo?

The surest, and the quickest, way for us to arouse the sense of wonder is to stare, unafraid, at a single object. Suddenly—miraculously—it will look like something we have never seen before.

Ma viene un momento, certe volte, che una ha paura del tempo che passa, e non sa più se val la pena di correre tanto.

Voleva stare sola, voleva isolarsi dal baccano; e nel suo ambiente non si può star soli, non si può far da soli se non levandosi di mezzo.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

I was thinking about a lot of things at that moment, really, and I mean a lot of things. Like the way squirrels in my front yard won't play with me. But more serious stuff too.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

I was so taken aback by the question that I had to think about my response for a minute. Had I heard what I thought I heard? ... Remembering Zora Neale Hurston's Janie, I felt something inside me fall off the shelf, and I had to go inside and look around to see what it was.

He took a deep drag and looked up into the cold night sky and saw a sea of stars above him. He knew nothing about constellations or astronomy, but he enjoyed the beautiful sight. In Paris, he had never even noticed the night sky, but out in the country it was immense, almost drawing you up into the heavens. One couldn't help but be awed by the sight. As he smoked, he continued to stare at the sky, marveling at the vast number and configurations of stars.

There is no time like the very early morning for subtle and mysterious deeds.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

what really distinguishes us from apes is not the opposable thumb but the ability to hold in mind opposing ideas, a distinction we should probably try to preserve.

All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts,And building castles in Spain and in France.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.