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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
Ignatius of Loyola
Contemplate your own shortcomings rather than scrutinizing the faults of others.
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Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.
Mike Ness
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What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
Dion Fortune
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
Italo Calvino
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A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.
Rumi
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He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
H. G. Wells
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We become what we contemplate.
Plato
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Bruce Lee
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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
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If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
Plato
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I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
Dan Flavin
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Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.
Franz Kafka
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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
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel
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Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.
Mike Rowe
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Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.
Harold Klemp
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Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
Adi Da
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Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
William Feather
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Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil
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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
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Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
Thomas S. Monson
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There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.
Leigh Newman
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
Albert Wohlstetter
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Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.
Edgar Degas
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You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
Simon Cowell
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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
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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
Horace
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In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
Juliana Hatfield
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Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.
Nhat Hanh
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Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
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To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
Barbara Dana
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I have actually seen people contemplate their navels
John Heilpern