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Quotes About Mindfulness

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
~ Alan W. Watts
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
~ Meister Eckhart
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
~ Caroline Myss
For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.
~ Annie Oakley
I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.
~ Ian Curtis
I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.
~ Anne Lamott
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
~ Ramakrishna
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
~ Dale Carnegie
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
~ James Allen
Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.
~ Big Sean
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
~ Alice Walker
Work at being a humble person.
~ John Templeton
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.
~ Baba Hari Dass
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
~ Earl Nightingale
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ?
~ Everett Ruess
Understand the difference between being at work and working.
~ Henry Ford
Working gets in the way of living.
~ Omar Sharif
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
~ Jim Rohn
No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
~ Baba Hari Dass
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
~ George MacDonald
Suffering = Pain x Resistance
~ Shinzen Young
I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.
~ Pierre Reverdy