Quotes About Contemplation

I only wish to read, think and write.

Triumphant moments are for wise thinkers...

Writings are thoughts in a defined moment.

It's not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it's the quality of the question

Think like a man of action act like a man of thought.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.

We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

Why did I always need to do something, like referring one person to another, just for the sake of doing something, when sometimes, perhaps, it was better to do nothing?

We're all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself;

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent.