Quotes About Contemplation

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Quit being so busy and learn quiet, to quit talking so much and learn silence.

Ross took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with the smell of sea. He fancied he could hear the waves breaking.

Posso farti i dispetti, tirarti i capelli, gridare e cantare, se mi va, e suonare la vecchia spinetta. Divido il letto con te e al mattino, quando mi sveglio, faccio un profondo respiro e penso a cose importanti.

ahead in the soft and sighing darkness

inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach.

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

In our own fevered, changing, and precarious age, where all is in flux and nothing is accepted, we must survey with respect a period when, with only three hundred thousand soldiers, widespread peace in the entire known world was maintained from generation to generation, and when the first pristine impulse of Christianity lifted men's souls to the contemplation of new and larger harmonies beyond the ordered world around them.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

quedó libre de toda responsabilidad y dedicado a contemplar las faltas inevitables, las debilidades, las sorpresas y los desengaños que la lucha tenía reservados.

The silence following great words of Peace.62

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

in painted quiet and concentration

I've wanted to write about them for a long while, but it's a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of a better poet, even more stunned by the world than I. But time is short. I write.

No he vivido más que tú, sino sólo lo bastante para pensar de lejos.

Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.

Nie ma rozpusty gorszej ni? my?lenie.

the unthinkable / is thinkable.

On siedzia? z sensem (bo czyta?), a ja bez sensu siedzia?em.

Considering the bird, considering the stick, perhaps finally I'll also find out what it is with the mouths. (Why? How? What an absurdity!)

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