Quotes About Contemplation

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Life is but thought.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose

Every time I stop and think about how short life can be, I wonder what I'm waiting for.

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?

Sometimes silence is a really good answer.

One thing you have to learn in life is that sometimes it's best to just sit down and shut up..

Be mindful of what you throw away, be careful of what you push away, and think hard before you walk away.

Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To think about the choices we've made and the decisions we still need to make.