Quotes About Mindfulness

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

One should count each day a separate life.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Sweets are good for the nerves.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.

Not all speed is movement.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.