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.

We become what we contemplate.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

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.

There is no art without contemplation.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.