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most of our human problems come because we don't know how to sit still in our room for an hour. — Leighton Ford
- Peter Scazzero
We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.
- Maxine Peake
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
- Shonda Rhimes
You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
- Jonathan Edwards
Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.
- Joseph Campbell
For then alone do we know God truly," writes Saint Thomas Aquinas, "when we believe that He is far above all that man can possibly think of God."[33] And
- Joseph Campbell
She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.
- AA Milne
And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
- AA Milne
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
- AW Tozer
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
- Abraham Lincoln