Quotes by Contemplating You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it. Simon Cowell contemplating failure ifs Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil contemplating ability purity We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. Simone Weil wretchedness contemplating god Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. Simone Weil contemplating purity power We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation. Terence McKenna caterpillars contemplating Better to illuminate than merely to shine. Thomas Aquinas contemplation contemplating shining Each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings. Thomas S. Monson contemplating grateful blessing To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo contemplating shadow looks Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure William Feather contemplating possibility people So many hours must I take my rest; William Shakespeare contemplating hours time «123