Quotes About Contemplation

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.

A calm night is open to all the truths.

A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!

Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!

Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.

Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!

Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!

Observe the life like a wise tree by the side of a calm lake! Do not move; just sit and observe! Observe the Sun, observe the storms; observe the wisdom, observe the stupidities!

On the path to truth, you can't see many people; truth's way is calm and quiet. Look around you, friend! Are there too many people on the path you walk? If there are, question your path! Get away from the crowds!

Silent moments are valuable! They give you a good opportunity to design new paths in your life!

Silent streets have many things to say.

Some sit and watch the life; some sail to the sea and the life watches them!

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!