Quotes About Mindfulness

Far too many people don't think about what they say until it smacks them in the throat.

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained

you have the right to be satisfied with what you have and with what you are right now.

I am serene and balanced, whether life is perfect or not.

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Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

When we become response-able—that is, when we learn to choose our responses freely and consciously—we are free to build a life of continuing growth and increasing happiness.

Anger, if not allowed to fester and grow out of proportion, is healthy, like a smoke alarm that if heeded can prevent all sorts of damage.

However, if criticism and humility aren't balanced with appreciation for things we do well and our willingness to learn, we can become critical, judgmental, and stress-filled.

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.

What fears are propelling me to work so compulsively? and, What is being sacrificed as I pursue this goal? As you answer, remember to do so in a loving and nonjudgmental way. You are doing the best you can, and are now in the process of making some new choices.

We get off the guilt train by reminding ourselves that we are not responsible for other people's happiness.

The first and most basic step for any change or growth, no matter how small, is to know what we feel, how we think, and how we would like to alter our lives.

I haven't used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.

You should only speak when you have something worth saying.

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether.

You really ought to try reining in those hormones of yours. It's a radical concept for you, I'm sure, but just as a change of pace.