#contemplative

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now. ↗

— Anne Heche

#before #contemplative #everything #i #just

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative? ↗

— Michael Arad

#design #feel #form #how #own

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought about my small victories and everything I'd seen destroyed, I'd swum through mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs, I'd lost the only person I could have spent my only life with, I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless. None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life

Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be. ↗

— Joel T. McGrath

#regret #life

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#always #been #checking #city #contemplative

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#according #contemplative #day #depths #each

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person. ↗

— Ed Helms

#boisterous #come #contemplative #given #guarded