Quotes About Mindfulness

Do not disturb the sleeping dog.

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

1. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. 3. Go very lightly on the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.

Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

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.