Stefano Langone Quotes

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

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.

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

I have always been a big fan of Salman... whenever I see him or meet him, I choke.

This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.

I cannot believe my life. I just can't. I'm so blessed.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

I'm blessed, and... all the time, I sit and think, 'Wow.'

It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

Usually, when I'm having a good time, I don't think about it that much. I tend to become more reflective or introspective.

It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way.

When I try to appreciate something, it feels like my hands are around the moment, trying to squeeze it. It's when you really release yourself of the responsibility to be enjoying things that you actually do.

I will never take my experience for granted, because it's been a blessing.

The love and liking that people have for me has bowled me over, and I am simply overwhelmed.

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

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.