Quotes About Mindfulness

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)

I have often said the soul cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.

to think well; this is the principle of morality.

The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room

We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light it throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. (Page 10)

So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are nor ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

138] Diversion. It is easier to bear death when one is not thinking about it than the idea of death when there is no danger. (166)

Fascinatio nugacitatis - Pentru ca patima s? nu ne vat?me, s? tr?im ca ÅŸi cum n-am avea decât opt zile de tr?it.

all of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.

all humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone." Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Let us then strive to think well; that is basic principle of morality. (54)