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Quotes About Contemplation

Hay momentos en la vida en que se desea tomar el camino más largo a fin de mantener vivo caminando el hervidero de ideas en el que nos encontramos inmersos y a cuyo fluir desea uno abandonarse.
~ Honore de Balzac
Je ne sais pas ce que je ferai au premier fanatique qui a inventé Dieu.
~ Honore de Balzac
Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.
~ Honore de Balzac
You can't say what you think, if it is true, as an illustrious author says it is, that a man must think his words before he speaks his thoughts,
~ Honore de Balzac
What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.
~ Honore de Balzac
We talked together through that silence in the language of thought. Nothing is more rapturous than these mute conversations.
~ Honore de Balzac
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
~ Honore de Balzac
My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.
~ Unknown
I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.
~ Hope Solo
En cuanto a mí, me paso la vida llevando cigarros a la boca como quien quema margaritas: ¿me quiere? ¿no me quiere?
~ Horacio Quiroga
Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your Silence. Hovsep kazezian www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.
~ Unknown
Extraordinary individuals stand out in the extent to which they reflect—often explicitly—on the events of their lives, large as well as small.
~ Unknown
any given moment can suddenly fill you with a sense of elegiac anticipation.
~ Unknown
What good is intelligence,' Akutagawa asked, 'if you can't ever discover a useful melancholy?
~ Unknown
In the morning, look out and let the landscape take up full residence in your heart before all is intervened by the sound of human voices.
~ Unknown
And half of the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward.
~ Unknown
Look at you.
~ Howard Stern
Life-changing experiences have occurred during contemplation, recovery from addiction, during worship, in extreme emergencies, and under the duress of combat.
~ Howard Storm
It is good to make an end of movement, to come to a point of rest, a place of pause. There is some strange magic in activity, in keeping at it, in continuing to be involved in many things that excite the mind and keep the hours swiftly passing. But it is a deadly magic; one is not wise to trust it with too much confidence. The moment of pause, the point of rest, has its own magic.
~ Howard Thurman
La science actualise les débats, elle les rafraîchit. Elle ne les tue pas. A chacun de faire son choix.
~ Hubert Reeves
I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do... or I don't, but its peaceful... only me... no worries.
~ Unknown
He looked down at the street, and the unbroken whiteness, and watched his foot touch the snow and listened to the slight crunching sound as he stepped forward. He looked back at his footprints. They were fascinating. He had been the only one to walk along this street today. There wasn't even the mark of a dog or squirrel, or the scratch of a bird. He continued through the soft, silent snow, a feeling of peace starting to flow through him, helping make his step lighter and easier.
~ Unknown
I stayed where I was and watched. The man and the corridor. He didn't make any other noise, and the corridor didn't do anything that corridors don't normally do.
~ Hugh Laurie