Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't be distracted by emotions like anger, envy, resentment. These just zap energy and waste time.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.

I am pleased that lying on the sofa being a slob is finally considered the responsible thing to do.

I need to do some social distancing from the refrigerator.

After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.

Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.

Today is the longest day of the year—but anymore, every day is.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Don't let the hours own you.

I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill the present by cutting it up in cruel little snippets to fit some desperate architectural draft for a taj mahal in the future.

If a butterfly lands on your shoulder, don't wait until later to enjoy it.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.