Contemplating Quotes

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Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. — Dorothy Gilman
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. — Isaac Watts
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate… — Socrates
Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all… — Blaise Pascal
David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast… — Alex Ferguson
It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as… — Morihei Ueshiba
Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own… — Guru Angad
What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in… — Isabel Paterson
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not,… — Malcolm Forbes
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -… — Kate Chopin
The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by… — Wayne Dyer
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill… — Charles Caleb Colton
At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize,… — William Braxton Irvine
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. — Georges Simenon
All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against… — James Atlas
Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you… — Quentin Crisp
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these… — Polly Young-Eisendrath

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