Quotes About Contemplation

Solitude is a form of meditation.

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.

An inability to remain quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

...Shall I go on? Or have I said enough?...

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

Think before you ink!

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

Tea should be taken in solitude...

A crisis pauses during tea.

Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

Give me nights perfectly quiet... and I looking up at the stars...

Under the stars, the world is a different place.

Do not watch too closely cogs in the wheel of time. Observe their passing as the rhythm of a poem — not clicks of the abacus.

The weather being fine and dry... he sent his valise on by the coach, and set out to walk.... in the healthful exercise and the pleasant road. It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate upon, though he had been walking to the Land's End.

In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.

Winter is the slow-down Winter is the search for self Winter gives the silence we need to listen Winter goes gray so we can see our own colors...

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.