Quotes About Mindfulness

I continually remember them and have become depressed. Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope. Lamentations 3:20–21

Philippians 4:6–7: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled;...As obedient children, do not conform to the

Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34

Here's a rule of thumb for the thought life that will be a catalyst for victory in all parts of life: starve the flesh and feed the spirit.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

There's nothing in your life or in our collective problems that does not require our ability to put our attention where we care about. At the end of our lives, all we have is our attention and our time.

Self-care is a requirement.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.

I just don't harbor resentment toward anything or anywhere or anyone - I'm too busy.

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

I'll go out to eat and have a really good lunch and try to shut the phone off, but I can't, really, because the social media stuff will start happening.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

Sometimes I have to shut off the omnipresent disco ball and flashing lights that are always in my head. It's a part of maturing, I guess - just learning that it's not just always about a quick, easy fix of getting people to dance.

When I'm on the pitch, I'm happy. I can shut everything else out.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Stop running around, stop trying to return every email in your inbox immediately, stop cramming too much stuff into too few hours in the day. Sit down, shut up, and most importantly, be glad.

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.