Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else… — Frederick Lenz
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. — Sylvester McCoy
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it… — Nicolas Malebranche
When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of… — Saint Augustine
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow? — Mata Amritanandamayi
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a… — Bernard Levin
The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the… — Eugenio Montale
... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends. — Clifford Whittingham Beers
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. — Ignatius Loyola
The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. — James G. Frazer
I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own… — Dustin Clare
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so… — Richard Louv
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the… — Robert M. Gates
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral… — Todd Gitlin
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical… — Aristotle
In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in… — Tycho Brahe
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the immediate… — Warren G. Harding
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing. — Leigh Newman

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