Quotes About Mindfulness

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

He has enough who is contented with little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.

We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.

The way to do is to be.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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.