Quotes About Contemplate

So the first thing is to question or ponder or wonder about something. The second is to create or invent a solution or a new idea. The third is to"—she paused, trying to summarize the discussion we had just had—"evaluate and assess whether it's a good idea.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Why see death as a hangman when it is truer to see it as a harvester leveling the earth with its scythe? Oddly, we take hope from the seasons — the rebirth of spring after the death of winter — or from the rising and setting of the sun. But no spring, no dawn beyond death, has ever been proven. Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

Don't just do something. Stand there. —Rochelle Myer

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings but contemplate their return. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, And when death comes, you are ready.

Philosophy is inexistent without reason. Weigh things as they are.

Think carefully first, and then act boldly.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

Don't go searching for the Dhamma outside, for it lies within. Peace lies within, but we have to contemplate so that we're aware all around—subtly, deep down.

It's cool to think about stuff bigger than ourselves" -Chris

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

As we contemplate Washington's words and place them in his historical circumstances, it occurs to us that a man so concerned for righteousness in his army, and for military chaplains to lead his men in seeking the blessings of heaven, just might have been a praying man himself.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

Listen twice, but only think once. "I

Stop for a Moment , Close Your Eyes and Breathe ... Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

There's always a beginning, middle and end though the trick is thinking widely enough to imagine all three in any circumstance.

it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!

Sometimes, when I get bored, I stop and think.