Quotes About Mindfulness

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.