Sandra Bullock Quotes

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in relation to the lives of others: silence makes us whole if we let it. Silence helps draw together the scattered and dissipated energies of a fragmented existence.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

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.

You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness.