Quotes About Contemplation

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

one to see a trucker

If. The smallest word, which raises the biggest questions.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die.

With finger on her solemn lip, Night hushed the shadowy earth.

Do you think preservatives make you live longer, or do they kill you off, asks Fran. She has often wondered about this.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

beings, likely to be left alone, need to be fortified and furnished within themselves, and educationand thought have tended more and more to regard these beings as related to absolute being ...

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Look ahead into the past, and back into the future, until the silence.

Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.

Nemoj ništa govoriti,

I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?

time-out here on the edge of ourselves.

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.

I freed myself in order to be alone. For me freedom means solitude, a solitude full of walks in the country, solitary strolls through unfamiliar cities, books scattered around my bed at night, lying open at random pages.