Quotes About Contemplative

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

The truth is I'm not very good with people. I think trees are much nicer than people, more restful.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

There are so many aspects of the Fatima events that evidence the contemplative infusion of significant graces that produced zeal in the three children, but the one that I want to focus on is the apparition of Mary to the children on July 13, 1917.

In essence, contemplative prayer is a communication with God that isn't simply our own mental or affective effort, but has at least some dimension of "givenness" by God, some infusion of light or love or presence that transcends our own efforts.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

I'm not the loudest guy on the tour for sure. I'm more calm, I think my private too.

I'm not really much of a celebrating type.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I'm a cerebral guy, man.

Being a musician is quite cerebral - there's a lot of sitting around.

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors

She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.

Slim quiet Negroes

lethargic meliorist;

He was sardonic even in his thoughts these days.

I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.