Quotes About Contemplation

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

Sometimes it is better to be alone because it gives you some time to be who you are.

Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air and remind yourself who you are and who you want to be.

Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy some free time being yourself.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder. To search for the truth.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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 had not lived.