Contemplating Quotes - Page 22

• The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Essence, Meditation

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Listen to God”, Harper Collins

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• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Expression, Long

  Statement during trial, March 18, 1922.

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• These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the country.

  Mike Lee

  Country, Special, Immigration

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

  Basilea Schlink

  Prayer, Father, Blessed

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• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

  Horace

  Latin, People, House

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• The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

  Charles Lamb

  Anxiety, Human Nature, Cowardice

  Charles Lamb (1867). “The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia”, p.219

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• It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Mind, Unison

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.

  Alfred Adler

  Love, Marriage, Real

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• If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

  A. E. Housman

  Science, Men, Inspire

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.

  Ian Mcewan

  Nuts, Painful, Paraplegics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Sea, Different, Valleys

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

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Facts

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• He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still eaten her. Not something I particularly wanted to contemplate.

  Josh Lanyon

  Potatoes, Potato Chips, Wanted

  Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.117, Samhain Publishing

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• We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Long

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Men, Selfishness

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.83, Univ of California Press

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• Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Sick

  "John Green: novelist, vlogger, force for good" by Scott Shoger, www.nuvo.net. May 30, 2014.

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• Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Grateful, Be Grateful, Good Things

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.

  Juliet Marillier

  Suicide, Father, Views

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• According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach for love and respect and art and whatever else, which is, utter horseshit: The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. Maslow's pyramid seemed to imply I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him.

  John Green

  Art, Philosophy, Pyramids

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Men, Islands

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Plato, Men, Oxford

  "In Victorian Days and Other Papers" by Sir David Oswald Hunter-Blair, New York: Longmans, (p. 122), 1939.

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• People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Independent, Discovery, People

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• Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Death, Crazy, Animal

  William Ernest Hocking (1937). “Thoughts on Death and Life”

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