Peaceful Contemplation Quotes

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition. I know exactly what to do in every situation. There is an inspiration within me which governs every act, every thought, with certainty, with conviction and in peace.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.