Quotes About Contemplation

Ammar's eyes opened without warning, vivid and blue, the same color as her own. He looked at her. She watched him settle into an awareness of the day, what morning it was.

It was surprising how easy it was to think about the unthinkable if you'd had a few glasses of wine on a spring night.

SAM OWEN always fished by night.

Everybody has lonely places

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily.

Rea azon gondolkozott, hogyan iszik a kefeköt?, és egyáltalán ki az és mit csinál. Csöngettek, mert éppen volt áram (…).

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Behold the portrait of our mortality

I never said to you: come back. Each time that you left forever, I lowered my head and looked at your left hand, I looked at the white carpet in front of the divan on which we were sitting, I didn't say the word, there is no circumstance, then I raised my eyes and looked out the window at the world that was moving away with the solemn slow pace of an ocean liner

A true solitude is not unbearable since it allows for otherness.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

He suspected that when Feynman wanted to know what an electron would do under given circumstances he merely asked himself, "If I were an electron, what would I do?

whether it means anything to ask why we're here....

And I could find other excuses to get out and sit on the crisp grass and look out over the airy roof of Yorkshire. It was like taking time out of life. Time to get things into perspective and assess my progress.

Conway said quietly, "If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway? Came the inquiry. Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose? It is called Karakal I don't think I've ever heard of it. Is is very high? Over twenty-eight thousand feet. Indeed? I didn't realize there would be anything on that scale outside the Himalayas. Has it been properly surveyed? Whose are the measurements? Whose would you expect, my dear sir? Is there anything incompatible between monasticism and trigonometry?