#contemplating

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object. ↗

— Meg Tilly

#chair #change #child #contemplating #different

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#agreeable #another #arising #contemplating #misery

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#believe #charms #contemplating #faults #flatter

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#does #done #goes #household #how

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#chicago #contemplating #feel #like #you