Quotes About Contemplative

Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.

To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Did he go out, drink, have a good time?" "Never." "Does he like money?" "No." "Does he like to be admired?" "No." "Does he believe in God?" "No." "Does he talk much?" "Very little." "Does he listen if others discuss any ... idea with him?" "He listens. It would be better if he didn't.

I looked at my wife. Her face was pensive ...

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

the lazy assumption that greed—which is demonstrably harmful to the individual who gets caught up in it—is somehow beneficial when replicated across our social institutions does not stand the test of any contemplative analysis of how lasting happiness is actually achieved.

I'm not a very religious person.

All these developments, naively accepted as "progress", threaten to blunt our aesthetic and spiritual sensitivities and deafen us to the higher call of the contemplative life.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

I'm not good, I'm just quiet

His words never rushed but were selected, chewed over, released into the air as if the best choice possible had been made.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

I'm a quiet person. It's only when I am cued to talk that I talk. Otherwise, I'm reserved and a bit of a recluse.

I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.

I am quiet and reserved.

I've always thought of myself as shy.

I'm naturally a shy, quiet person.

It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.