Quotes About Mindfulness

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

You can search the world over, but you won't find happiness until you realize that happiness isn't getting what you want. It's being content with what you already have.

The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.

We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want

When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.

I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want