Contemplating Quotes - Page 9

• Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

  John Chamberlain

  Christian, Mean, Men

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• It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Easy, Commit

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.42, Jaico Publishing House

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• I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Spirit, Bigs

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

  Kandyse McClure

  Morning, Yoga, Practice

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

  Andrew Solomon

  Ideas, Evil, Hurtful

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little more difficult for us to consign "other people" to our tidy boxes. Widening our imaginative life might - it's not hard to imagine - also develop our ability to contemplate counterfactuals and our capacity to speculate about how things might differ from how they're being represented.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  People, Imagine, Difficult

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Reality, Long, Focus

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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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• I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

  Raymond Blanc

  Failure, Able, Success Failure

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• Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue, and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Beautiful, Names, Tongue

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• 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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• Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Order, Made

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• Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.

  Harold Klemp

  Contemplation

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• Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Contemplation, Incidents, Masters

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 08, 2016

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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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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Men, Order

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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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• 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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• Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Unique, Past

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.44, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Views, People

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.185, Psychology Press

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