Contemplating Quotes

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

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

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

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

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

We become what we habitually contemplate

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

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

We become what we contemplate.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

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

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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.

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

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

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.

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.

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

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

There is no art without contemplation.

Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

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

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

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

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

He that contemplates hath a day without night.