Contemplating Quotes - Page 24

• An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Character, Angel, Men

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• The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

  Daniel Fried

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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• I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

  Richard Selzer

  Healthy, Alive, Body

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• Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Space, Giving, Advice

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• God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

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• It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Easy, Hard

  "Be The CEO Of Your Job" by Brad Feld, www.businessinsider.com. February 2, 2010.

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• With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, School, People

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• Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.

  Thomas Traherne

  Life And Love, Spring, Men

  Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr

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• 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.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Possibility

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• The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.
  I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them.

  Tara Brown

  Dark, Reflection, Insanity

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• They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

  Lionel

  Pain, Advice, Retarded

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Clouds

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• Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

  Edgar Degas

  Boredom, Overcoming

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (1858), as quoted in "The Notebooks of Edgar Degas" edited by Theodore Reff, 1976.

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• This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Opportunity, Giving

  Reginald Turnill, Buzz Aldrin (2007). “The Moonlandings: An Eyewitness Account”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

  G. Willow Wilson

  World, Rewards, Reckless

  G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Rocks, Air

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• You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

  Alan Watts

  Flower, Long, Realizing

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• The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Light, Perspective

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• I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Country, Government, Debt

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• When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

  Muso Soseki

  Heart, Garden, Religion

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Civilization, Skills, Achievement

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.

  Mark Zandi

  Party, Government, Tea

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• In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

  Juliana Hatfield

  World, Happens, Hard

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• We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

  Terence McKenna

  Caterpillars

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