Quotes About Mindfulness

All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

Todas las miserias de la humanidad se deben a una sola cosa: a que somos incapaces de estar sentados solos y en silencio en una habitación

Todos los problemas de la humanidad parten de la incapacidad humana de sentarse calmado en una habitación.

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

J'ay souvent dit, que tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne sçavoir pas se tenir en repos dans une chambre.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun tüm mutsuzluÄŸu tek ba??na sessizce bir odada oturamamaktan kaynaklan?r.

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want. -Bob Dylan's Dad

The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later.

Victor Frankl's insight: Between stimulus and response there is a space.In that space is our power to choose our response.In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best possible medical care begins with self-care, which allows you to exert some control over your own well-being.

We need to live in the now of life, it can't be about how much we suffered yesterday or what we might face tomorrow. It's about today. And today was good Willow in To Dance With Dolphins

Just because you're not dead doesn't mean you're alive.

Life is a martial art.

the days are long and the years are short.

Instead of letting idiots on TV, radio, and the internet convince us that our good lives were terrible, we needed to be practicing gratitude.

He had long ago learned to take his peaceful moments where he could find them. Who knew what tomorrow would bring?

This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.' Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.

I must not become so absorbed in my scientific work that I forget to fish and end up with nothing to eat.