Quotes About Mindfulness

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.