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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
Get to know God by contemplating His attributes.
— Maria Faustina Kowalska
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
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
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate,
— Mike Rowe
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
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
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
You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
— Simon Cowell
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
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
Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.
— G. Willow Wilson
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
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
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
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Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
From within the mind we look out and envision, contemplating and interpreting each new challenge and the action we will take.
— Lorii Myers
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
— Marshall McLuhan
