Quotes About Mindfulness

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.

Because today after all, is all we knew.

If I never had another thing, Id have everything.

We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.

snapping me back to reality.

Maybe my goals were too long-term. Maybe I should figure out a way to be happy, not for a lifetime, but for an hour or two.

Long as you see to your own needs first. You can't do real good in the world if you don't take care of yourself.

Strichler as I drove to work that

Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

Whatever happens is going to happen. And when I see something bad, I won't dwell on it or get emotional about it because there's too much shit going on, and I have a job to do.

Get it together, I told myself. Be calm. Be Zen. You are Buddha.

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.' The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

Unfortunately, some people go to a restaurant, and they aren't really there to enjoy themselves. They're there because they think they deserve to be there or because they can just afford it.

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

For years I thought of many other people. As we all do. But we should all step back and say, 'What's making me unhappy? What's not working for me? What can I take out for a bit and take out long-term that will help me a bit?'

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.