Quotes About Mindfulness

Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.

It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.

The mind is a garden

He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.

Even more important than what she gave her garden was what it gave her. In it, she found a sense of calm.

Don't take peace for granted. It can shatter like glass.

This is my resolution for the New Year. I will be honest with myself. I'll keep my eyes open. I'll see what's there, not just what I want to see.

Yesterday I was worried about a lot of things. Today I know what matters.

For a magnificent moment, the world fell away and she was somewhere else, before now, or long from now, and she wasn't hungry or tired or scared or angry. She simply was. She closed her eyes and felt at peace for the first time in years. Safe.

I finally learned that life is not made up of BIG moments and sudden epiphanies, but rather of tiny bits of time, some so small they pass by unnoticed.

It was strange how you could stop seeing people who were right beside you, how images stuck in your head.

While they were virtual roller coasters of emotion, you needed to be calm, always.

For a magnificent moment, the world fell away and she was somewhere else, before now, or long from now, and she wasn't hungry or tired or scared or angry. She simply was.

Don't take peace for granted, he'd said to her often. It can shatter like glass.

Don't take peace for granted, he'd said to her often. It can shatter like glass.

night rather than to gobble it all up at once. And

Consciousness brought pain.

Ženk neskub?damas per triukšm? ir skubi? ir nepamiršk, koki? ramyb? teikia tyla.

Mergi linistit pe drumul tau, prin larma si zor/ Si aminteste-ti cata pace poate fi-n tacere.

Happiness was a choice she knew how to make. She chose not to think about the things that bothered her; that way, they disappeared.

Honestly, she tried never to think about the girl she'd once been, and her life in that tract house in Rancho Flamingo. Sobriety didn't make it easier to look back. The opposite was true, in fact. Now she lived her life in moments, in breaths drawn and released, in drinks not sipped and bowls of pot not smoked. Every dry second was a triumph.

You have to be absolutely sure. Otherwise, regret will grow in spaces you don't even know are there.

you can't rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.

The only person your anger hurts is you. Let it go. Accept it. Move on.