Quotes about Contemplation
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
- Cicero
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
- Cicero
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
- Nelson Mandela
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will — that is what we are or will soon become.
- AW Tozer
Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.
- Marilyn Monroe
Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.
- Mark Batterson
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
I am a great & sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, & all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain