Quotes About Mindfulness

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone!

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Just a little bit less volleyball for me I think is a huge benefit for me.

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

I would say that my ability doesn't' have an off switch but instead is more of a volume dial. When going about everyday life I try and switch that noise to becoming background noise, but have taught myself when to turn the volume up, such as in readings.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

Harry Dean Stanton

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

That's the biggest part of our sport, is self-confidence, and self-belief.

I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds.

In the morning, I try to read self-help books and books on meditation.

We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.

My mom gave me a rose quartz that I carry every day. It promotes self-love. Whenever I feel a little down, I just hold it and get some good energy.

Self-love means something. I thought it was all a joke for a long time. It's really important. Giving yourself a break is really important.