Contemplate Quotes
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Aristotle -
The agreement we have today is the first of its kind, ... We think this is an agreement that can be a template for others to use.
Eliot Spitzer
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We become what we contemplate.
Plato -
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Victor Hugo -
We are in fact convinced that 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. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
Socrates -
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.
Robert Frost -
As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.
Marian Wright Edelman -
We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle.
John Burroughs
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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 -
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
Ivan Turgenev -
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
Johannes Kepler -
If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche -
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.
Caspar David Friedrich -
Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson -
It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.
Daniel Fried -
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.
Caspar David Friedrich -
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
Izaak Walton -
Life without a snail was hard to contemplate.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?
Rumi -
I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
Sylvester McCoy -
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
Dante Alighieri -
I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.
Merle Dandridge