Quotes about Contemplation
Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.
— LM Montgomery
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
— William Wordsworth
I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.
— Mark Twain
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
— John Keats
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
— Abraham Lincoln
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
— Henry David Thoreau
Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
— AA Milne
Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Sabbath is holiness in time.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel