Contemplating Quotes

Contemplating Quote of the day

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.

IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

We become what we habitually contemplate

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

We become what we contemplate.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.