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Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you. -- Harold Klemp
Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself). -- Adi Da
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. -- Ted Chiang
Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things. -- Boethius
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out. -- Robert Frost
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. -- Akhenaton
Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body. -- Gautama Buddha
Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings. -- Nhat Hanh
Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all. -- Wayne Dyer
Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you. -- Shere Hite
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. -- Jean Toomer
Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live. -- Abraham Isaac Kook
We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve. -- Dirk Benedict
Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. -- Adyashanti
Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self. -- Mooji
To contemplate is to look at shadows. -- Victor Hugo
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. -- Charles Dickens
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. -- Georges Simenon
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. -- Rene Descartes
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate. -- Juliana Hatfield
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity. -- Noam Chomsky
Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate. -- George William Russell
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa. -- Caterina Murino
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley. -- Zig Ziglar
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. -- Simone Weil
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 in LA. I would never raise any child there. -- Johnny Depp
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us. -- Laurie Colwin
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. -- Sai Baba
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. -- Paul Theroux
For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience. -- Douglas Brinkley
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. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. -- Victor Hugo
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. -- E. F. Schumacher
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 a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. -- Cyril Connolly
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. -- Helen Fisher
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude. -- Joyce Carol Oates
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. -- Henry David Thoreau
The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be. -- Jenson Button
We become what we contemplate. -- Plato
We become what we habitually contemplate -- George Russell
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. -- Simone Weil
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. -- Simone Weil
I have actually seen people contemplate their navels -- John Heilpern
And we came forth to contemplate the stars. -- Dante Alighieri
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate, -- Mike Rowe
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today. -- Vance Havner
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything. -- Raymond Blanc
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening. -- Marshall McLuhan
But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following. -- Henri Poincare
I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. -- Sonali Deraniyagala
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure -- William Feather
This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: -- Gautama Buddha
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. -- John Burroughs
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it. -- Niels Bohr
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate. -- Rosie Thomas
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I? -- Ludwig van Beethoven
It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. -- Daniel Fried
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. -- Robert Byrd
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. -- Richard Selzer
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences -- Robert Byrd
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. -- Caspar David Friedrich
Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate. -- John Steele Gordon
So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate. -- William Shakespeare
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them. -- Albert Wohlstetter
Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... -- Terry Pratchett
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. -- H. G. Wells
Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate. -- Pythagoras
To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate. -- Barbara Dana
In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees. -- Wayne Dyer
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do. -- Sylvester McCoy
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow? -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos. -- Terryl L. Givens
A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings. -- Christina Rossetti
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity -- Ambrose Bierce
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. -- John Maynard Keynes
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others. -- Jean Plaidy
The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. -- Nellie L. McClung
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. -- Lucretius
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. -- Dion Fortune
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing. -- Leigh Newman
To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary. -- Pope John Paul II
Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. -- Marshall McLuhan
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard. -- Horace
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. -- Don Mazankowski
The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources. -- John Mortimer
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. -- Voltaire
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. -- Isaac Watts
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. -- Bruce Lee
We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it -- Les Back
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. -- Henry David Thoreau
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' -- Theodore Bikel
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same. -- Ian Caldwell
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. -- Charles Lamb
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves -- Italo Calvino
I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life. -- Andre Dubus
Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings. -- Thomas S. Monson
Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. -- Dorothy Gilman
Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar -- Dean Cavanagh
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. -- Rachel Carson
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. -- Wendell Berry
What you are looking for is within you Fall silent a moment and contemplate what that means... You lack nothing. -- Prem Rawat
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature. -- Akiane Kramarik
People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'. -- Ray A. Davis
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. -- Carl Jung
There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson. -- Jasper Carrott
These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country. -- Mike Lee
Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. -- Laozi
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. -- Brian Eno

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