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Quotes About Mindfulness

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.
~ Melissa Etheridge
You have to be as relaxed as possible about food and fitness and the rest of it, or you'll be a slave to your beauty habits ... You may have great skin, but you'll become a robot.
~ Melissa Hellstern
I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow.
~ Melody Beattie
Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.
~ Melody Beattie
The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.
~ Melody Beattie
the surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will not wait for others to see and care; I will take responsibility for being aware of my pain and problems, and caring about myself.
~ Melody Beattie
We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths
~ Melody Beattie
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 —II TIMOTHY 1:7
~ Melody Beattie
Self-care isn't selfish; it's self-esteem.
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time.
~ Melody Beattie
We stop worrying about them, and they pick up the slack and finally start worrying about themselves. What a grand plan! We each mind our own business. Earlier, I described a person caught in
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will know that I don't have to worry about anything. If I do worry, I will do it with the understanding that I am choosing to worry, and it is not necessary.
~ Melody Beattie
God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive.
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will remember that there is no situation that can't be benefited by taking care of myself.
~ Melody Beattie
Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don't have to push so hard. Go in gentleness, go in peace. Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace.
~ Melody Beattie
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
~ Melody Beattie
Reactionaries...just feeling urgent and compulsive is enough to hurt us. Someone does something, so we must do something back Someone says something, so we must say something back. Someone feels a certain way, so we must feel a certain way. WE JUMP INTO THE FIRST FEELING THAT COMES OUR WAY AND THEN WALLOW IT.
~ Melody Beattie
I believe detachment can become a habitual response, in the same manner that obsessing, worrying, and controlling became habitual responses—by
~ Melody Beattie
The test, the mark, of a person that's on a spiritual path is whether they can live in harmony.
~ Melody Beattie
If you can't get peaceful about a decision, let it go. It's not time to make it yet. Wait until your mind is consistent and your emotions are calm.
~ Melody Beattie
Today, I will relax, breathe, and go with the flow.
~ Melody Beattie
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER, The Treasure Chest
~ Melody Beattie
Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful.
~ Melody Beattie