Walt Whitman Quotes

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

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

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.

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

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

In these silences something may rise