A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.Tom Hodgkinson
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.Wayne Dyer
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.Aristotle
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.Jean Arp
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.Joris-Karl Huysmans
There are very few men—and they are the exceptions—who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment.Carl von Clausewitz