Quotes About Mindfulness

Sometimes I don't reflect on the consequences

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Pretend to relax

really being able to relax means you can be comfortable doing nothing at all.

your ears and put them over your mouth," Butcher says. "Learn to listen, see, smell, and absorb everything around you without speaking your thoughts first. If

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.

Listen to the Song of Life

People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.

You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Bicycling unites physical harmony coupled with emotional bliss to create a sense of spiritual perfection that combines one's body, mind and spirit into a single moving entity. Bicycling allows a person to mesh with the sun, sky and road as if nothing else mattered in the world. In fact, all your worries, cares and troubles vanish in the rear view mirror while you bicycle along the byways of the world: you pedal as one with the universe." ~ Frosty Wooldridge

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Until you stop being governed by your emotions you cannot be impartial.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

There are two kinds of suffering - conscious and unconscious. Only a fool suffers unconsciously.