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Contemplating Quotes

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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.
Authors on Contemplating Quotes: Simone Weil Plato Nhat Hanh Gary Hamel Adi Da Mike Ness Robert Henri Dion Fortune John Kenneth Galbraith Thomas Aquinas George Herbert Harold Klemp William Feather Mike Rowe Robert M. Pirsig Bruce Lee John Steele Gordon Remy de Gourmont Barbara Dana George Russell William Shakespeare Horace Gautama Buddha Rumi Alanis Morissette Juliana Hatfield Thomas S. Monson Dan Flavin Franz Kafka Victor Hugo Ludwig van Beethoven H. G. Wells Albert Wohlstetter
2.
Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.
John Steele Gordon

3.
Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.
Mike Ness

4.
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
Dion Fortune

5.
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
Ludwig van Beethoven

6.
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
Italo Calvino

7.
We become what we habitually contemplate
George Russell

8.
A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.
Rumi

9.
He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
H. G. Wells

10.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine.
Thomas Aquinas

11.
We become what we contemplate.
Plato

12.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

13.
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Bruce Lee

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We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.
Terence McKenna

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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

16.
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
Dante Alighieri

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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

18.
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
Dan Flavin

19.
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

20.
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

21.
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

22.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Gary Hamel

23.
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.
Mike Rowe

24.
He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

25.
There is no art without contemplation.
Robert Henri

26.
Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.
Harold Klemp

27.
Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
Adi Da

28.
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
William Feather

29.
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan

30.
It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Robert M. Pirsig

31.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Simone Weil

33.
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

34.
Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.
Thomas S. Monson

35.
There are still things out there in the universe to contemplate and spend our lives chasing.
Leigh Newman

36.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo

37.
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
John Kenneth Galbraith

38.
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

40.
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
Simon Cowell

41.
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
George Herbert

42.
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

43.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
Horace

44.
In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.
Juliana Hatfield

45.
Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.
Nhat Hanh

46.
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan

47.
To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.
Barbara Dana

48.
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
Remy de Gourmont

49.
So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.
William Shakespeare

50.
I have actually seen people contemplate their navels
John Heilpern