Top Contemplative Life Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Contemplative Life quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Elizabeth Janeway
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
- Elizabeth Janeway
Collection: Contemplative Life
Image of Thomas Merton
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Contemplative Life
Image of Thomas Aquinas
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
- Thomas Aquinas
Collection: Contemplative Life
Image of Elizabeth Janeway
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
- Elizabeth Janeway
Collection: Contemplative Life