Top 231 Contemplating Quotes & Sayings

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Stop contemplating and start celebratingYeah, you gotta live before you die.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

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

I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

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

Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

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

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.

We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.

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.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

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.

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don't know that, but I was done.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

I had been contemplating working on fiction show for some time and 'Humsafars' seemed like the perfect choice.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

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

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

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.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.