Quotes About Mindfulness

There are a lot of forms of exercise where you have to leave yourself out of the room while you force yourself to do this thing. With Pilates, I get to bring my true self. I cry, I laugh. I get to go, 'Where is my body today? What do I need today? How can I take care of myself and push myself past my comfort zone?'

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

It's so hard to see one of your friends fall, and it's a reminder that you have to be on and in the zone.

For me, working out is to zone out and just be you. Who cares what you look like?

When I'm working, I don't think about other things. I go into a zone.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

Hair and makeup has become part of my pre-competition routine. It's a quiet time, when I can reflect, I can put on some music - and I can mentally get in the zone of performance.

Meditation helps you get in the zone.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. ... I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry.

If you can't help it, don't think about it.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.