Quotes About Mindfulness

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Frank Costanza

Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all. p 227

If You Learn Only One Yoga Pose . . . . . . let it be supta baddha konasana.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea?

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

É importante saber, com toda a certeza, que Marco Aurélio não se limita a defender o carpe diem de Horácio ou a aliciar-nos a viver cada dia como se fosse o último – embora também o faça. O que ele prega muito claramente é que o presente é tudo o que temos.

When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.

To overlook God's presence is not simply to be irreligious: it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there.

Try to improve yourself rather than seeing mistakes of other's

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.

Don't be afraid to talk to yourself. It's the only way you can be sure somebody's listening.

Perhaps you should put your head down." I knew this was the thing to do, although I've never fainted and I don't intend to.

The Blue Rose's Precepts went like this: Accept your sorrows, If you cannot change them Embrace your joys, So you don't estrange them.

Feelings happen when emotions bubble to the surface so that we become aware of them. When we are conscious of our emotions, we are able to express them in words and make others aware of them:

Therefore remember: Always fall asleep with peaceful and harmonious thoughts or with thoughts of success, health and inner peacefulness.

Ich gebe mir Müh, nichts zu wollen, zu denken.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already. Dhammapada 21 We frequently hear it said that staying involved in life keeps you young.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.