Contemplating Quotes - Page 15

• Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

  George MacDonald

  Self, Next, Sides

  George Macdonald (2016). “Sir Gibbie”, p.30, George Macdonald

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• Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

  Rosie Thomas

  Loss, Looks, Folly

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

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

  David Brin

  Sarcastic, Mean, Born

  David Brin (1990). “Earth”, Spectra

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• He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

  Edmund Burke

  Understanding, Use, Aids

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• Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).

  Adi Da

  Consciousness

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• How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Benefits, Next, Faces

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• Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Anxiety, Aging, Source

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.

  Socrates

  Art, Eye, Reality

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• When I was 20, I was contemplating quitting. I was at the first event of the season and I overhead a conversation between two girls. One told the other, "God still loves you," and that caught my attention. Later that day, I caught up with the girl and asked her what she meant. Before then, I'd never really thought about God. But there was an undeniable stirring in me and I couldn't ignore it.

  Kelly Clark

  Girl, Love You, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

  Joseph Conrad

  Adventure, Joy, Soul

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.109, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can we forgive? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we not hate our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we avoid gossiping about our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. There is no other way". These virtues are the those of the Father, who forgives us always, and Our Lady, Our Mother, shares in these virtues too.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

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• When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Spiritual, Art, Eye

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• Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Distance, Reality, Dimensions

  Abraham Isaac Kook, Ben Zion Bokser (1978). “Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems”, p.207, Paulist Press

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• Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

  Ted Chiang

  Able, Existence, Rejoice

  "Exhalation". Short story by Ted Chiang, 2008.

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• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Fighting, Our World

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• A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Men, Green

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• Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

  William Gibson

  People, Apocalypse, Disaster

  William Gibson (2011). “The Difference Engine”, p.193, Spectra

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• There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Data, Focus

  "Diary" by Rebecca Solnit, www.lrb.co.uk. August 29, 2013.

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• Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Soul, Enchantment

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• The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

  John Owen

  Kings, Communication, Eye

  John Owen (1679). “Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...”, p.197

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• It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary.... The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Integrity, Communication, Responsibility

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• I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Cities

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mean, Order, Years

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

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Doe, Add, Trouble

  Mignon G. Eberhart (2016). “Five Passengers From Lisbon”, p.59, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

  Les Back

  Writing, Kind, Creation

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