Quotes about Contemplation
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
— Vincent Van Gogh
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
— Henri Nouwen
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
— Virginia Woolf
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
— Epictetus
Our real journey in life is interior.
— Thomas Merton
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
— Thomas Merton
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