Quotes About Mindfulness

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.