Quotes About Contemplation

If you knew they were really balls of flaming gas, you could imagine them as van Gogh saw them, without difficulty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and looking into that illuminated void, you understood why people have always looked up into the sky when talking to God. You need to feel the immensity of something very much bigger than yourself, and there it is—immeasurably vast, and always near at hand. Covering you. Help me, I said silently. I

John himself seemed to be considering the matter, lips pursed. He had a heavy beard, I saw; the blond stubble softened his features and at the same time gave me an odd feeling of strangeness—I had so seldom seen him less than perfectly shaved and groomed. "No. There is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ no sense of possession in it," he said finally.

Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle

Before I go to bed, sometimes I'll just sit outside and philosophically assess the day.

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

I never thought of a career in athletics.

I'm just going to continue to think about what kind of films I want to do and what's out there for me to audition for, and I love trying.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

I tend not to dwell too much on ultimates.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I'm dying always.

I never really played in an empty gym before.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.