Quotes About Mindfulness

With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

Each day provides its own gifts.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.

Live in day-tight compartments.