Quotes About Mindfulness

The world is not disturbing you, you are disturbing yourself about the world.

My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

He lives happy and master of himself who can say as each day passes on, I have lived.

With very little ado I stop the first sally of my emotions, and leave the subject that begins to be troublesome before it transports me. He who stops not the start will never be able to stop the course; he who cannot keep them out will never, get them out when they are once got in;

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

The Stoics forbid this emotion to their sages as being base and cowardly.

Ratio et prudentia curas, Non locus effusi late maris arbiter aufert. [Was Sorgen zerstreut, ist Weisheit und Ruhe, nicht schöne Aussicht nach Hügeln und Meeren.]

Bütün dertlerin bittiÄŸi yere gideceÄŸiz diye dertlenmek ne budalal?k!

Ya?ad???n?z her an, hayattan eksilmi?, harcanm?? bir and?r.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Wie overal is, is nergens.

Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how many ways our happiness is prey to death and threatened by its grip.

Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del destino.

Desconfía de un confort excesivo: engendra irreflexión.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Undergo the quiet treatment of the five senses. It is enough to accept what is gratuitously given.

The best listening, Elsa said, was silence dilated by love and attention.