Quotes About Contemplation

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

room. She stood for a while in the middle, imagining herself not in it anymore, imagining herself instead in her sister's

volume down on

And then, just

There was a brief silence. Hardly surprising, as everything in the universe sat on the other side of it.

the point of shopping is to look at things, not to buy

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

West paused. "My God, I can feel sincerity rising in my chest like a digestive disorder. I have to stop.

Generals have gone to war with far less deliberation than she gave to the choice between the pear tart or the vanilla soufflé.

In my job, I have many operations, so I tend to use time in my car to think. I get in the car after work and drive all night -11 hours, Vancouver to Banff.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs.

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