Quotes about Contemplation
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
- Eugene Peterson
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
- Mark Twain
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
- Helen Keller
It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.
- Charles Spurgeon
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself--he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
My own rule is to let everything alone.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.
- F Scott Fitzgerald