Quotes About Mindfulness

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

If you want to be happy, be!

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

ONLY THE DAY DAWNS TO WHICH WE ARE AWAKE,IF WE ARE TO GRASP THE REALITY OF OUR LIFE WHILE WE HAVE IT,WE WILL NEED TO WAKE UP TO OUR MOMENTS,OTHERWISE,WHOLE DAYS,EVEN A WHOLE LIFE COULD SLIP BY UNNOTICED..

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

To be awake is to be alive.

I love a broad margin to my life.

To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.