“Thanksgiving provides a formal context in which to consider the instances of kindness that have enlightened our lives, for moments of grace that have gotten us through when all seemed lost. These are fine and sentimental subjects for contemplation.”— Jon Carroll, sfgate.com
“Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.”— Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Jim Hopper, David Harbour, imdb.com
“I think with one match, you can destroy, you can rebuild. With one match you can take down this whole room. Yet at the same time with one match we could take down this whole room and start something new.”— Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, youtube.com
“I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I know what she’s talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It’s like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don’t meet up right.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Maybe that's how I needed to be: more appreciative, and less contemplative. Not every journey needs to be observed from the outside.”— Hannah Hart, youtube.com
“Sometimes, it's best to sit in traffic and stare and think does that guy really love Holland Oats that much?”— Hannah Hart, youtube.com
“Nothing that happened in one's so called 'virtual life' can ever be fully disconnected from what happened in your so called 'real life'.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Ultimately, selfhood and relationships and experiences and FIFA playing and whatever else are varying degrees of real rather than simply real or not.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Philosophical reflection is a bad idea because, if you think you can find some basis for why you should live, why you should be moral, why you should do what you do – any kind of rational basis, you discover finally that there is no basis. You can always keep saying, ‘Why? Why? Why?’, until you unde…”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”— Henry Miller, amazon.com
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”— Eva Hoffman, goodreads.com
“Be like the flowing river, Silent in the night. Be not afraid of the dark. If there are stars in the sky, reflect them back. If there are clouds in the sky, Remember, clouds, like the river, are water. So, gladly reflect them too, In your own tranquil depths”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com