Contemplating Quotes

496 Contemplating quotes by 405 unique authors

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… — Hsing Yun
I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and… — Wayne Dyer
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they… — Wilfrid Sheed
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a… — Marcus Aurelius
I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the… — Jean de la Bruyere
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the work of an… — Roger Ebert
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate.… — Ronald Reagan
Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas. — Brandi Chastain
You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. — Robert Fulghum
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such… — Cyril Connolly
The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter… — Johnny Depp
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. — Rene Descartes
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. — Albert Einstein
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. — Brian Eno
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel
To contemplate is to look at shadows. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. — Joseph Joubert
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the… — Hugh Laurie
Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I… — Alanis Morissette
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate… — Joyce Carol Oates
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings.… — Joyce Carol Oates

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