Quotes About Mindfulness

Jedi breathing exercise Luke Skywalker had urged upon me when trying to recruit me as a Jedi. Breathing in through my nose to a count of four, I held the breath for a seven count, then exhaled in eight beats.

If you are spending more time matching your Kitchenaid to your kettle to your cupboards than you are cooking, something is very wrong.

Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my head.

For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

series you followed. Not even if you died. Alive or dead or a thousand miles distant, you were always going to be on the hook for work that was neither a procedure nor a series of steps but, rather, something that demanded your full, constant attention without necessarily calling on you to do, perform, or say anything at all.

There was still chicken on the bone but sometimes you just have to push the plate away.

Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

All that matters is not remote from where the Buddha sits.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.

Gratitude is the only appropriate response to everything that happens.

You don't have to matter any more than you do right now.

Non è un fallimento, si dice. Non è un fallimento essere in queste stanze, nella tua pelle, a tagliare i gambi dei fiori. Non è un fallimento, ma ti chiede qualcosa: ti chiede uno sforzo; semplicemente essere, ed essere grata; essere felice (terribile parola).

Podsjeti se: u jelu nema ništa loše. Ne misli na trulež ni na izmetine; ne misli na lice u zrcalu.

I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

Er dachte einige Zeit nach. Dann sprach er weiter: Man darf nie an die ganze Straße auf einmal denken, verstehst du? Man muß nur an den nächsten Schritt denken, an den nächsten Atemzug, an den nächsten Besenstrich. Und immer wieder nur an den nächsten. Wieder hielt er inne und überlegte, ehe er hinzufügte: Dann macht es Freude; das ist wichtig, dann macht man seine Sache gut. Und so soll es sein.

Ä°nsan caddenin tamam?na bak?p hemen bir karar varmamal?. Her zaman ad?m ad?m ilerlemeli. Sürekli olarak bir ad?m sonras?n? düÅŸünmeli, bir ad?m, sonra derin bir nefes, sonra bir süpürge. Ä°ÅŸte o zaman hayat zevkli olur. Önemli olan iÅŸini iyi yapmakt?r.

Ä°nsan zamandan tasarruf ettikçe, zaman azal?yordu.

Man darf nie an die ganze Straße auf einmal denken, verstehst du?

YOU-reka! When you keep your hands and brain occupied—whether with video games, gardening, or removing a spleen—it means you're putting your brain into the state you want: not thinking about eating and not automatically reaching for something to put in your mouth.

I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.