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Quotes About Mindfulness

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
A healthy mind has an easy breath.
~ Author Unknown
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
~ Sanskrit Proverb
Breathe and you know that you are alive.
~ Annabel Laity
Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the spirit within.
~ Author Unknown
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.
~ Annabel Laity
Learn how to exhale... Learn how to release the abdominal muscles in a wave-like motion and the inhale will take care of itself.
~ Carla Melucci Ardito
Our breathing is designed to help us release any tensions that have become so much a part of us that we no longer sense their presence.
~ Carla Melucci Ardito
He who only half breathes, only half lives.
~ Sanskrit Proverb
Breathe open fields of calm and content. Don't clang your lungs against your burdens. A constricted life needn't constrict your breath.
~ Terri Guillemets
Right breathing is the art of all arts.
~ Author Unknown
We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If we gaze at the clouds, then close our eyes for a few minutes, then re-open them and the clouds are different, we don't freak out about it. So, why do we worry when things shift and change in our lives? New day, new sky, every moment too.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't let house or garden climb on your back and stick there. And unclutter your mind from any idea that you have to do a thousand things before other people do them.
~ American Home, 1945
I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.
~ Anonymous, c. 1907
The emotional weight of clutter crushes our souls and our lives.
~ Terri Guillemets
Self-reflection is the first step to decluttering because it's not about the stuff.
~ Emily Rooney, unverified
Conscience keeps more people awake than coffee.
~ Author Unknown
Wrapping my hands around the warm mug, and inhaling, and drinking sip by sip — a calming, invigorating, aromatic, caffeinated meditation.
~ Terri Guillemets
God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
~ Og Mandino
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
~ Author Unknown
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~ African Proverb
Even if you have countless blessings, it's good to count them anyway.
~ J.L.W. Brooks, 1997