Quotes About Mindfulness

Through their training, they had all learned that winning depended on being able to forget everything but what you were doing at that moment. You could hold all your ships in your mind at once — but only if any ship that no longer matters could be blocked out completely. Thinking about dead men, about torn bodies having the air sucked out of their lungs by the cold vacuum of space, who could still play the game knowing that this was what it really meant?

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!

If you start forgetting you're already lost.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

Si hanno due vite. La seconda comincia il giorno in cui ci si rende conto che non se ne ha che una.

Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

It is only when mosquito land on your balls that you realize there is a way to solve problems without using violence.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."-

With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.