Quotes About Mindfulness

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.

Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.