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Quotes About Contemplation

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
~ Brian Wilson
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
~ Andy Rooney
I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.
~ Bill Watterson
Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
During the rests - pray.
~ Eugene Ormandy
Folks always look good in their coffins.
~ Elvis Presley
You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
~ Albert Camus
It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.
~ Gillian Anderson
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.
~ Joseph Brodsky
I always get the better when I argue alone.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I can't stop thinking like this.
~ Steven Wright
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?
~ Christy Leigh Stewart
I can see her weighing her response, concentrating like a cliff diver studying the ebb and flow of the tide."Um, well... could you at least give me an idea?""Two weeks give or take a week or two.
~ Unknown
I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I started rubbing my temples and she suggested I don't really get headaches. It just hurts me to think.
~ Kelley Armstrong, The Calling
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
~ Pat Conroy
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
~ Tadao Ando
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
~ Unknown
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
~ Novalis
In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.
~ Jo Coudert
Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.
~ Jodie Foster
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott