Quotes about Meditation
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
- Marcus Aurelius
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
- GK Chesterton
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
We become what we think about.
- Earl Nightingale
Use your life to wake you up.
- Pema Chodron
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.
- Will Rogers
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
- William Alexander
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
- William Hazlitt
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
- William James
Let me now only add this one word more, that he who has learned to pray, has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
- William Law