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Quotes About Mindfulness

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
~ Horace
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
~ Ken Keyes
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Build a little fence of trust Around today; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay.
~ Mary Frances Butts
Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
~ Smiley Blanton
It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
~ Palmer Sondreal
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
~ LaoTzu
Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
~ Robert J. McCracken
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
~ John Burroughs
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
~ Chinese proverb
If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
~ W. Beran Wolfe
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
~ Epictetus
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
~ Sir James M. Barrie
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
1 am happy and content because I think I am.
~ AlainRene Lesage
Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
~ Joseph Farrell
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
~ Thornton Wilder
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
~ John Stuart Mill
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
~ Sophocles
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.
~ Don Marquis
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
~ George Sand