Quotes About Contemplation

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything else.

I spent the rest of the morning observing the observer

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

that it is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, "Life is beautiful

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

As my grandmother used to say: You're such a brain, you can worry more in one minute than other people can in a whole year.

Indignation overruled introspection.

As I stared out of the train window, the scenery became a blur, as unclear as my thoughts and feelings.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

Je ramène les pans de mon manteau. Je m'allonge dans la neige. J'écoute siffler le vent. Je regarde le ciel bas. Une profonde paix descend en moi.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

Silence may be something unusual for her—and it could take time for her to adjust to the possibilities silence provides.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Good mathematics is a soliloquy, communicated.

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

His face churned. That was the point, before he said a word, that he broke her heart. The contortion of those muscles paraded a decision over whether to tell her the truth. Once he finally spoke, Lawrence's opting for the honesty route didn't nearly compensate for the fact that candor had been a choice. For an alternative direction to have beckoned, it was probably well trod.

perhaps we have never been more than vocal and perhaps soon we can hope to be no more than thoughtful...

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.