Quotes About Mindfulness

Relax, let your guard down. You're all tensed up so you always expect the worst. Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.

and as long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

It was far too hot to think about complicated matters.

No matter how tired the body gets, one must never let the exhaustion enter one's thoughts.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

He had read many books over the years, but he owned few. He tended to dislike filling his home with a lot of possessions. When he finished a book, unless it was something quite special, he would take it to a used-book store. He bought only books he knew he was going to read right away, and he would read the ones he cared about very closely, until they were ingrained in his mind. When he needed other books he would borrow them from the neighborhood library.

If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best.

One is either perfectly present and entirely innocent of one's own contentment (which is remarkably like not being content) or one is aware, and thus distanced, and no longer at home or happy. Am I wrong?

I think what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again.

Give less of a fuck. There's a lot of talk from well-adjusted people on the other side of menopause about how they care a lot less about a lot more things than they did before. I believe this is often a survival skill picked up in perimenopause, one that likely kept them from yelling at other people and helped them carve out the time, space, and energy to care for themselves, often after a process of figuring out they gave way too many fucks to adequately deal with any of this.

To shake off things like this I need to move—outside. I used to exercise for my body, but these days it's more for my soul.

You only get one life. I've just made a decision to change things a bit and spend what's left of mine looking after me for a change.

Lo que he aprendido es la importancia de desvincularse de las locuras de los demás porque uno ya tiene bastante de qué preocuparse intentando mantenerse centrado...

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules 14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom: 15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

Bike riding is great for your thinking. I can't say I've written an entire tune while cycling, but riding has definitely inspired songwriting ideas.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.