Quotes About Contemplation

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me

Would the mountain cherry blossoms return my affection for there is no one else out here. /????? ?????? ?? ?????? ??????

I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.

The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

Open your mind before your mouth