Victor Hugo Quotes

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Change comes from reflection.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

I learned from my past.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Every now and then, I have a deep thought.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.

Night is the mother of counsels.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I discovered myself!

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.