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Quotes About Contemplative

Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.
~ Jake Paul
Long periods of overstimulation—too much activity—begin to affect the organs and blood flow. Mentally we may become dull or jaded. Most important, we are not able to have deeper, more contemplative thoughts.
~ Sakyong Mipham
He often came back 'all thinky' from work.
~ Sara Sheridan
My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.
~ Rita Ora
Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.
~ Richard Gere
I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
~ Jodie Whittaker
Avoid participating in any religious community where the clear truth-claims of Scripture are ignored while contemplative and mystical practices are favored simply for their spiritual experience. Be careful of any church or ministry wherein acts of mercy and environmental stewardship are devoid of a theology of the cross and wind up being little more than the worship of created people and things. And be careful not to worship a good thing as a god thing for that is a bad thing.
~ Mark Driscoll
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
~ Anthony Burgess
In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.
~ John Waters
I'm not a great socialiser. Nor am I a red carpet person.
~ Gilbert O'Sullivan
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
~ Kate Bush
I am one of the haunted.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
I am a very private person. I don't like to talk about things till someone asks about them.
~ Alia Bhatt
A lot of my music is kind of contemplative, and somehow that always tends to tilt on the darker side. My inner conversation is apparently quite dark.
~ Hildur Gudnadottir
Ah! Yo no soy más que un estudioso..., un soñador. No soy capaz de explicar las cosas prácticas de la vida.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She wasn't a woman who smiled and said hello.
~ Arundhati Roy
La belleza de Palmera era belleza pensativa: Como la de los lirios. Lo cual no quiere decir que ella acostumbrase a pensar, pues tampoco los lirios acostumbran pensar y, sin embargo, su belleza es pensativa.
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela
I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
~ beckett samuel iii
I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.
~ Ellen Barkin
I was a reflective child.
~ Michael Leunig
I was a boring man but a reflective man.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.
~ Alessia Cara
I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.
~ Charles M. Blow