Contemplate Quotes

#1. Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. 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

#4. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Brian Eno

#5. Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#6. Whoever is devoid of the capacity of 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

#7. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#8. 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

#9. If we are merely a chance product of 'random happenstance' and nothing more, doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of 'random happenstance' with such methodical complexity?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond

Carolyn Jessop

#11. If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.

Thabiti M. Anyabwile

#12. The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

Kandyse McClure

#13. The answer to the first question was too impossible even to contemplate, but I would have to come to terms with it eventually. You see, we were in Hell. We were both in Hell.

Paul Kane

#14. Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.

Gyula Krudy

#16. A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

John Steele Gordon

#18. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

Ambrose Bierce

#19. Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Mata Amritanandamayi

#20. Newsflash for any of the current, past or future Survivors out there ... when you contemplate strategizing about the other team, the best idea is to shut up and keep it to yourself. You're welcome; this bill is in the mail.

Jenna Morasca

#21. Have another tangerine as he begins to expound upon how only in the unpolluted air can man truly be free to contemplate the complexities of existence. I

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker,

Shepard Fairey

#23. Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

#24. The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

John Mortimer

#25. Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

Aristotle.

#26. The day before you died was the longest, slowest day ever. It gave you more time than you could possibly want to contemplate all the things you'd got wrong, the chances you'd missed, the errors you'd made. It was long enough to convince the most hopeful person that there was no point in anything.

Juliet Marillier

#27. Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

Laozi

#28. As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

Baruj Benacerraf

#29. India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Yann Martel

#30. It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#31. Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. It is a terrible thing we contemplate, a vile thing. Yet we who presume to rule must do vile things for the good of the realm, howevermuch it pains us.

George R R Martin

#33. You can't focus on death, or failure. Otherwise you're surrendering greatness to all the people too dumb to contemplate it.

David Wong

#34. I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

Jean Plaidy

#35. I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.

Leila Janah

#36. 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

#37. I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That's all. If you think about it, that's kind of like constructing a vacuum.

Haruki Murakami

#38. Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

Pythagoras

#39. One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.

Mary MacLane

#40. 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

#41. Observe your actions but be so busy that you never contemplate their possible effects. It is only this consciousness that leads to liberation. Everything else is illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#42. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Virginia Woolf

#43. Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

Shilpa Sandesh

#44. Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe?

Ruth Ahmed

#45. Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

George Sarton

#46. As we contemplate with reverence and awe how our Savior embraces us, comforts us, and heals us, let us commit to become His hands, that others through us may feel His loving embrace.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#47. It is almost a reconciliation to having my leg broken to contemplate the amount of reading I am going to do this summer. I am getting better fast and I am afraid I'll get well so soon I won't get to read enough.

David McCullough

#48. Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.

Akiane Kramarik

#49. Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

Seth Klarman

#50. I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

Caspar David Friedrich

#51. However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

John Of The Cross

#52. I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

John Grogan

#53. I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

Andre Dubus

#54. Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Nhat Hanh

#55. It was not easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#56. Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

Robert Frost

#57. Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Thomas Aquinas

#58. We are here among people who don't contemplate transience and the existence of the soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud just to survive another day.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#59. To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Victor Hugo

#60. It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.

Marguerite Rawalt

#61. [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Beryl Markham

#62. If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#63. I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

John Caudwell

#64. 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

#65. Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

Najib Razak

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

Daniel Fried

#67. People who insist on dividing the world into 'Us' and 'Them' never contemplate that they may be someone else's 'Them'.

Ray A. Davis

#68. 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

#69. It felt like too much. Not too much to have, just too much to contemplate. Commitments like boulders that were too heavy to carry.

Rainbow Rowell

#70. When we contemplate, we realize that one moment is not separate from the other;
What we need is to live from one moment to the next, as this is reality of the eternal now.

Gian Kumar

#71. On Telegraph, she stopped him in front of Walgreens, put the sack into his hands, a finger to her lips. "I'll come back." He was left to contemplate the sidewalk, full of listless earring vendors ready with their piercing guns.

Jonathan Lethem

#72. I guess this is a message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.

Hannah Hart

#73. I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.

Tyler Knight

#74. 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

#75. It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

#76. 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

#77. Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

Aleister Crowley

#78. I do not know if others are like myself, but I am conscious that I cannot contemplate beauty long.

W. Somerset Maugham

#79. Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate

Terry Pratchett

#80. If there is any sea as blue as the Caribbean I have never beheld it, and when it is seen at twilight, it is most spectacular, but then you will hear more of this later, for I have had much time to contemplate the color of this sea. On

Anne Rice

#81. The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.

Paul Bowles

#82. Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.

Christopher Hitchens

#83. 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

#84. The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#85. When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

CeCe Winans

#86. Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Anne Rice

#87. It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

Paul Di Filippo

#88. I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Dougray Scott

#89. Forgiveness is greater than condemnation, and love stronger than hate. What is there left for us to contemplate?
-Reed Abbitt Moore-

Reed Abbitt Moore

#90. Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

#91. As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

Etgar Keret

#92. The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

Kerry Greenwood

#93. Your refusal to contemplate your own death leads to your refusal to contemplate your own life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#94. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.

Richard Russo

#95. The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

Nicholas Kristof

#96. So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate.

William Shakespeare

#97. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Albert Einstein

#98. It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Helen Keller

#99. Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love.
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us?

Rumi

#100. Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

Tony Levin