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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 role very much. -- Hugh Laurie
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 world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. -- Kate Chopin
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. -- Billy Tauzin
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. -- Mary Astell
Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. -- Amanda Lindhout
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -- David Hume
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends -- Kobayashi Issa
The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. -- Thomas Troward
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. -- Caspar David Friedrich
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. -- J. K. Rowling
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. -- Rene Descartes
He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly -- Steven Erikson
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl. -- Nhat Hanh
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. -- Thomas Aquinas
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end. -- Simone Weil
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition. -- Eliza Haywood
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
Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. -- Dalai Lama
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
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
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
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 brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. -- Tycho Brahe
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. -- John Muir
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. -- Donna Rice
I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful -- Sherilyn Fenn
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
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. -- Meg Tilly
When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am. -- Pete Postlethwaite
You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. -- Robert Fulghum
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. -- Simon Cowell
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. -- Saint Ignatius
When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating! -- Larry the Cable Guy
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. -- Gary Hamel
The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. -- Lil Wayne
It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. -- William S. Burroughs
When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating. -- Marcelene Cox
I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other. -- Trent Reznor
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 just go in and let it happen. -- Alanis Morissette
Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake. -- Antony Gormley
The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. -- Mark Zandi
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. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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 brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky. -- Tycho Brahe
The central dogma of the New Testament is that Jesus died as a scapegoat for the sin of Adam and the sins that all we unborn generations might have been contemplating in the future. Adam's sin is perhaps mitigated by the extenuating circumstance that he didn't exist. -- Richard Dawkins
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. -- Meg Tilly
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. -- Martha Beck
I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life. -- Victoria Moran
Star stuff contemplating star stuff ... -- Carl Sagan
Some people dote on contemplating disasters. -- William Gibson
We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. -- Terence McKenna
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ... -- Evelyn Underhill
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating. -- Will Self
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. -- Edgar Degas
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. -- Carl Sagan
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. -- Joshua Slocum
Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. -- Eve Ensler
Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die. -- Mike Ness
A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. -- Henry Home, Lord Kames
Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. -- Vanna Bonta
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in! -- Robbie Williams
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. -- Mark Twain
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. -- Ayn Rand
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. -- Ann Voskamp
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. -- G. Willow Wilson
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe. -- David Brin
The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. -- Peter of Alcantara
contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. -- Mignon G. Eberhart
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. -- Michel de Montaigne
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others -- Milarepa
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. -- Saint Ignatius
I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now. -- Billy Bob Thornton
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. -- Leonardo da Vinci
With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close. -- Zelo
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. -- Edward Abbey
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. -- Christopher Paolini
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. -- Franz Grillparzer
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires. -- Gautama Buddha
The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. -- Juvenal
... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends. -- Clifford Whittingham Beers
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life. -- Patanjali
The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard. -- Mike Brown
Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. -- Nick Flynn
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. -- Steven Pinker
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
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. -- Gautama Buddha
After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty. -- Timothy Leary
Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner. -- Warren Buffett
IF YOU WOULD BE FREE OF GREED, FIRST YOU HAVE TO LEAVE EGOTISM BEHIND. THE BEST MENTAL EXERCISE FOR RELINQUISHING EGOTISM IS CONTEMPLATING IMPERMANENCE. -- Dogen
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. -- Rick Ross
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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. -- Norman Cousins
To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. -- William Hazlitt
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you should be doing which is contemplating. -- Peter Adamson
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. -- Giacomo Leopardi
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. -- Wilfrid Sheed
Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament. -- Daniel H. Pink
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. -- James Laver
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. -- Hsing Yun
If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep. -- Laini Taylor
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. -- John Calvin
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Alexis Carrel
Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution." -- Jennifer Gilby Roberts
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. -- Thomas Troward
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves. -- Joseph Campbell
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. -- Basilea Schlink
ONE OF THE BEST MEMORIES OF MY LIFE IS CONTEMPLATING THAT FIRST FINISHED DRAWING AND REALIZING I HAD CRACKED THE CODE, THAT I COULD MAKE DRAWINGS LIKE THIS WHENEVER I WANTED. -- Jim Woodring
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. -- Joan Frank
He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs. -- Stephenie Meyer

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