Quotes About Mindfulness

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

I don't eat junk food and I don't think junk thoughts.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Never let yesterday use up today.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

People are always asking about the good old days. I say, why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, esson, or delight that moment has to

The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.