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Quotes About Heedfulness

Better a thousand times careful than once dead.
~ Proverb
When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.
~ Nikita Thukral
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a great Dzogchen master of the last century, taught, "There is one thing we always need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness, the guard who is on the lookout for when we get carried away in mindlessness.
~ Joseph Goldstein
pay attention everything counts
~ Jude Watson
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
~ David Hackworth
Don't be lulled into complacency.
~ Alan Gerry
You should be more careful." "I'm considering that. I've heard good things about that lifestyle.
~ Jeff Strand
Watch out, life is watching you!!
~ Don Freeman
Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
~ Ajahn Chah
There is really no good English translation for adab. It means behaving well or good etiquette. It is acting with heedfulness, beauty, refinement, graciousness, and respect for others. The Koran teaches us the importance of acting beautifully. "Do what is beautiful. God loves those who do what is beautiful." (2:195)
~ Robert Frager
There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
If you go through life being casual, you will end up a casualty
~ Les Brown
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
~ Sophocles
A fool is someone who ignores warning signs
~ Sandra Brown
That's how every act of carelessness begins and ends. No one will notice, no one will hear, no one will pay the least bit of attention. Easy to say, but is it true?
~ Anne Frank
But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.
~ Marlon James
Attention is an important resource.
~ bell hooks
One must be so careful these days.
~ T.S. Eliot
what danger is there if you don't think of any?)
~ Henry David Thoreau
The trooper said to her, "You he careful, now.
~ Nelson DeMille
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
~ Jonathan Swift
Heedfulness: the path to the Deathless; Heedlessness: the path to death. The heedful do not die; The heedless are as if already dead. Knowing this as a true distinction, those wise in heedfulness rejoice in heedfulness, enjoying the range of the noble ones. Dhp 21-22
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
4. Not correcting those who are heedless
~ Chogyam Trungpa
constant vigilance
~ James Luceno