Quotes about Contemplation

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.