Contemplating Quotes - Page 25

• We become what we contemplate.

  Plato

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• When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

  Harry S. Truman

  Army, Winning, Presidential

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

  Amanda Lindhout

  Pain, Home, Unique

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• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friends, Kindness, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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

  Mike Ness

  Dies

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• Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

  John Steele Gordon

  Fate, Chili

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or worried or lonely for my father. If she had been crying, she came back composed; if she had left angry with us, she returned in good humor. So we naturally believed that there was a cleansing, purifying effect to be had; that letting the fresh wind blow through you mind and spirits as well as your hair and clothing purged black thoughts; that contemplating the ceaseless motion of the waves calmed a raging spirit.

  Robert MacNeil

  Mother, Lonely, Father

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• Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return.

  Geoff Hoon

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

  "Attention upsets UK town's Muslims" by Jim Boulden, www.cnn.com. November 5, 2001.

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• We don't go to Sabbath meetings to be entertained or even solely
  to be instructed. We go to worship the Lord. It is an individual
  responsibility, and regardless of what is said from the pulpit, if one
  wishes to worship the Lord in spirit and truth, he may do so by
  attending his meetings, partaking of the sacrament, and
  contemplating the beauties of the gospel If the service is a
  failure to you, you have failed. No one can worship for you. You
  must do your own waiting upon the Lord.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Responsibility, Waiting, Wish

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• I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Names, Forever, Temples

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• The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Prayer, Profound

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

  Gautama Buddha

  Animal, Evil, Suffering

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• Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Dream, Energy

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• If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Running, Lying, Teaching

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• Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate.
  Contemplate glory. There will be a light.
  Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

  Robert Frost

  Eye, Light, Glory

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.

  Charles Macomb Flandrau

  Life, Appreciation, Pain

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• Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Boredom, Too Much, Hell

  Dorothy Gilman (2000). “Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

  Isaac Watts

  Mind, Calm, Temper

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.185

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• Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard, and at times discouraging, work. Last year our missionaries averaged sixty-seven hours a week in actual proselyting effort. Let those who contemplate missions realize that they will work as they have never worked before, and that they may expect such joy as they have not previously known.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Holiday, Vacation

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• The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.

  Shepard Fairey

  People, Causes, Sticker

  "The Medium Has No Meaning". www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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