Quotes About Mindfulness

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

My actions are my only true belongings.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

Life is available only in the present moment.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.

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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.