Quotes about Contemplation
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
— Henri Matisse
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his souls estate.
— Henry David Thoreau
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
— Henry Ford
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
— Leonard Sweet
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
— Adoniram Judson
His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire.
— Janette Oke
If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Cicero
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
— Henri Nouwen