Contemplating Quotes - Page 13

• One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ideas, Important, Principles

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.

  Isabel Allende

  Spiritual, Hate, Mean

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• When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Father, Philosophy

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• Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Strong, Government

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• There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.

  Jasper Carrott

  Running, Mind, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

  Laurie Colwin

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.

  Bell Hooks

  Emotional, Years, Imagination

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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

  Horace

  Treasure, May

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• He that contemplates hath a day without night.

  George Herbert

  Night

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

  Jackson Pollock

  Arriving, Painting, States

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Men, Land, Citizens

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• The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Men, Perfect

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

  Andrew Pyper

  Feet, Vision, Monsters

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• People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Hate, Loss, Ideas

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

  Zelo

  Thinking, Two, Worry

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• This book denounces the cultism in chiropractic but supports the appropriate use of spinal manipulation and the research efforts required to solidify its scientific basis. If you are contemplating or receiving chiropractic care, it might help protect both your pocketbook and your health.

  Samuel Homola

  Pain, Book, Chiropractic Care

  Samuel Homola (1999). “Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide”

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• Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

  Fannie Hurst

  Perseverance, Struggle, Book

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• The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Mind, Landscape, Natural

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1817). “Elements of criticism [by H. Home].”, p.299

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sea, Water

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• Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Decorum, Form, Sensuality

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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• 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

  Life, Deception, Demand

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• What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

  Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  God, Men, Self

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• By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Life, Time, Lasts

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