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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ... — Evelyn Underhill

Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring. — Thornton Wilder

Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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

I was just contemplating how some gasoline and a match would improve this painting. — Penelope Douglas

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

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

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

Get to know God by contemplating His attributes. — Maria Faustina Kowalska

Randy felt relieved. He looked out over the river, contemplating his ignorance of women and the peace of evening. — Pat Frank

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. — Carl Sagan

A tired king at the end of his reign, perhaps not as sharp as he had been, contemplating a disastrous division of his kingdom. — Emily St. John Mandel

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. — Antonia Perdu

How can one look happy when he is contemplating the anomolous Zeeman effect? (Wolfgang Pauli) — Manjit Kumar

Had found a career they loved not by contemplating what would turn them on but by bumping into it someplace out in the world. — Kate White

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. — Christopher Paolini

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels — John Heilpern

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

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

They plodded on, contemplating the faithlessness of modern love and marriage. — Y.S. Lee

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate, — Mike Rowe

herself, she stood outside Mark's door, head bowed, contemplating — Cheryl Taylor

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world. — Angela Carter

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. — Ann Voskamp

That state of simplest form of awareness alone, is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating and realizing. — David Lynch

She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her forever."
Sebastian from Demon Possession — Kiersten Fay

Contemplating suicide-- or a graduate degree — Joe Pernice

Was contemplating my purpose - when the notion chose to arrive - that I'll be dead much, much longer - than I will ever be alive. — Joseph DiFrancesco

It means my brain finds you more interesting than all the really interesting trivial facts I could be contemplating or researching at present. — Penny Reid

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist. — Eve Ensler

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. — Peter Of Alcantara

I'm contemplating if book sales and promotions can actually be rigged like so many other things in our everyday lives? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious — Yann Martel

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

The act of 'letting go' is actually very easy - it's effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating 'letting go' is hard. — Mike Brown

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain

Victor hadn't exactly looked forward to death before, he was probably contemplating it a bit more fondly as the morning progressed. — Grace Burrowes

When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption. — Ellet J. Waggoner

We create a lot of unnecessary problems in our lives by acting emotionally ... without contemplating the ripple effects of our actions. — Timothy Pina

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. — Joshua Slocum

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe. — David Brin

He had an ego so large that only by contemplating the mathematical definition of infinity could anything so limitless be imagined. — Robert Anton Wilson

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

We shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, — Teresa Of Avila

Zombies were probably munching on my friends and family as we speak and I was contemplating orgasms in the apocalypse. But it couldn't be helped. — Gillian Zane

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man. — Anna Godbersen

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

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. — Simone Weil

Funny how a little sleep, a little makeup, and a lot of contemplating can make you feel like a different person - a stronger version of yourself. — Anna Banks

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating. — G. Willow Wilson

With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close. — Zelo

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. — Amanda Lindhout

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow. — Edward Abbey

Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating. — Alex Rutherford

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

We become what we contemplate. — Plato

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — J.K. Rowling

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking ... but ... it's overrated - just get another drink in! — Robbie Williams

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part. — Franz Grillparzer

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink. — Nick Flynn

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

Many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends. — Clifford Whittingham Beers

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

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. — Terence McKenna

I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my 'I'm in great shape' bubble. — Andrea Smith

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

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem. — Vanna Bonta

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

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

From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take. — Lorii Myers

He's always looking out windows,
contemplating something. — Jay Asher

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not. — Trai Byers

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

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating. — Will Self

Contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, — Homer

The cost of contemplating history is often an uneasy conscience. — Richard Kluger

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

The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths. — Lysa TerKeurst

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done ... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do. — Lil' Wayne

Contemplating leaving everything I had ever known of one ill-advised hour of passionate lunacy. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

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

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

We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed. — Anna Maxted

Not once in her life had Darcy wanted to thumb her nose at danger and rip the clothes off a man, but she was contemplating that very thing. — Donna Grant

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

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

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson

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

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. — Robert Fulghum

Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. — Mignon G. Eberhart

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

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. — James A. Michener

Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not. — Alexander McCall Smith