Quotes About Mindfulness

Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

Paradise is a state of mind.

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Violence begins with the fork.