Contemplating Quotes - Page 12

• And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

  Thomas Paine

  Beautiful, Eye, Views

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Inspirational, Nature, Peaceful

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• Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

  Hsing Yun

  Kindness, Compassion, Meditation

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• Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

  Nicole Brossard

  Unique, Energy, Synthesis

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• All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Bystanders, Events, Gestures

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• 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

  Years, One Day, Birth

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And there are a couple of things that she really understands, as she contemplates her grandmother's life and makes the funeral arrangements. One, she's really talented, an organizational woman. She knows how to do things. She begins to compare her life to her grandmother's life. And it's very clear to her that being a devoted wife and a devoted mother is not enough.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Couple, Wife

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

  Etgar Keret

  Children, Parent, Unhappy

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Bored, Imbeciles

  Remy de Gourmont (1928). “Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works”

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• Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Science, Errors, Discovery

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• Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discipline, Mindfulness

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Silence, Pressure

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• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  William Hazlitt

  Stars, Reality, Sky

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• India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

  Yann Martel

  Imagination, And Love, India

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

  Joan Frank

  Writing, Luxury, Treasure

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• Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man" by William Hermanns, (p. 138), 1983.

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• We've begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos.  Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves but also to that cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Spring, Long

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• One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

  Jackie Tabick

  Lying, Character, Cartoon

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• We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?

  Sheena Iyengar

  Feel Better, Choices, Support

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• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Delight, Bittersweet, Kind

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• Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Grief, Responsibility

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