Advice Quote by Ritu Ghatourey

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

— Saint Francis de Sales

“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing…

— Franklin Foer

“Living an engaged and contemplative existence allows a person to glean the quintessential experience of living mindfully.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

— Louise Hay

“I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In…

— Edgar Lee Masters

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

— Thomas Merton

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the…

— Mother Teresa

“We must seek out that which invigorates us, and engage it at all fronts. Art, music, literature, conversation, travel, nature—whatever it is that keeps…

— L.M. Browning

“It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a…

— Jawaharlal Nehru