Quotes About Contemplative

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I'm not a social butterfly.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.

but the child is silent, looking as though he would rather understand than speak.

I should love a dear little blind rat,' said Wendy, and added in a contemplative voice: 'I sometimes wish I were blind you know, so that I needn't see my tooth water after I've spat it.

relaxing, intelligent feeling of being surrounded by generation after generation of thought.

People think I'm laid back, but there's a lot going on in my head.

I am a melancholy type of person.

My general taste is towards the melancholy.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

A contemplative is not one who takes his prayer seriously, but one who takes God seriously, who is famished for truth, who seeks to live in generous simplicity, in the spirit. An ardent and sincere humility is the best protection for his life of prayer.

The contemplative is not isolated in himself, but liberated from his external and egotistic self by humility and purity of heart—therefore there is no longer any serious obstacle to simple and humble love of other men.

kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life itself solves them for you. Usually the solution consists in a discovery that they only existed insofar as they were inseparably connected with your own illusory exterior self.

He's a man of few words," Danielle said with her patented lah-de-dah intonation, although the set to her face belied her tone.

An ever-increasing family of tabbies, sprung from one enormous matriarch, sit about upon the counter and on the empty shelves, somnolent and contemplative, their amber eyes narrowed and winking in the sun, a reluctant slit of liquid in an expanse of hot fur.

Che c'è?» gli chiese Kibby, notando il suo sorriso contemplativo. «Stavo solo pensando che se cadessi in una botte con le Corrs nude, finiresti con il chitarrista che ti ciuccia l'uccello» sghignazzò Skinner.

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.