Contemplate Quotes

“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If there’s one thing that I’ve repeatedly and rather foolishly forgotten to schedule into my life it is to create times where it’s not scheduled.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The snow falls soft and unfathomable, drawing the world down to a whitened hush, forcing us (as few things do) to pause long enough to take stock of everything that we miss in our crazed pursuit to gain everything that we can.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There are streets to enjoy, there are streets to wander aimlessly and also there are streets to contemplate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Nothing else has given me the chance to contemplate life the way walking has.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Aloneness provides an atmosphere of tranquil solemnity and time for meditative contemplation.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The finish line is the culmination of a journey. As such, we should never pay it so much attention that the culmination of the journey becomes the whole of the journey at the expense of the journey”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it does not teach, let it inspire. If it does not inspire, let it teach.”
― Monaristw

“If everything is clear and obvious, why do so many people disagree about so many things? What’s really going on?”
― Joseph Deitch, Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life

“Start thinking for yourself, because if you don’t someone else will.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Guilt does for the conscience—for the spirit—what pain does for the body. It is meant to grab your attention, to make you stop and consider your actions in order to prevent further damage done to yourself.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“But then she thought about the falcon, how it was made to do what it did and had no choice in the matter. It was eat pigeon (or sparrow or rat or raccoon) or die, and Kid supposed that the beauty of the falcon was directly related to its ability to kill, a completely different kind of beauty than the beauty of the pigeon, and that humans' ability to recognize the two beauties and not to call one beautiful and the other ugly said a lot about humans in ways you could probably spend years contemplating.”
― Anne Fleming, The Goat

“A person can use personal meditation to awaken the mind, eliminate the wildings of the ego, and find bliss by living in accord with cherished ideas. I hope to forge a deep spiritual connection with family, friends, neighbors, and community and effectively and honestly to communicate and interact with other people. I aspire to discover empathic feeling of being “at one with the universe” including acting in harmony with all the people and wildlife that inhabit the world. I also aspire to be comfortable in aloneness, peaceful with only the eternal silence to accompany my heart song.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes in life we need to sit with things for a minute, maybe on the fringe of things, not only to savor the wealth of the moment, but take a moment to figure out how to respectfully engage it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Too often contemplation is the excuse for inaction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“Nothing else has given me a chance to contemplate life the way walking has.”
― Ayokunle Falomo, thread, this wordweaver must!

“Life is nothing more than to love and to contemplate.”
― Alan Maiccon

“The moments that bind us to our decisions are not in how often we get lost in contemplation, neither are they in the kind of heart that we can commit to that something rather are in that first step that we initiate to get things done.”
― Tendai Kasusu

“Do not contemplate you as the man of my head rather I do not contemplate you as the mane of my hair”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Do not contemplate you as the man of my head, I rather do not contemplate you even as the mane of my hair”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I watched the squirrels play today. And it seemed that they knew nothing other than to be what they were created to be. And with the space to think of nothing else, they could not have been anything more.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you don’t think past your own thoughts, you will live a prisoner to your experience. And that can be a very small cell to live in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yes, I contemplated my ways and changed my direction; now I am happy and peaceful, I thank God! —Epiphany”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“I had been on the doctor yo-yo for many years regarding fatigue and strange illnesses, but this was sickness on steroids! It was far worse than anything I had seen before. I knew what Dementia was and I knew the end result was not pretty. I had seen my elderly grandfather die from it, but he developed it at a far older age. From being diagnosed to death only took a few years. I started to contemplate that I may not make it to fifty years of age.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“It is not our contemplation of life. Rather, it is the living out of our lives so that we have something to contemplate.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The still mind is reflective and transparent...just as the deep water is transparent when unstirred by the thoughts for only then, it becomes reflective. In it, we then sense the meditative beauty, the contemplative stillness. Practice stillness to be like water.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee