Quotes About Mindfulness

Dr Edmund Jacobson of the University of Chicago has gone so far as to say that if you can completely relax the muscles of the eyes, you can forget all your troubles!

Portanto, não pensem no amanhã, pois o amanhã trará as suas próprias preocupações. Basta a cada dia o seu próprio mal.

He who treads softly goes far.

To cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness, remember that Rule 2 is: Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Let's love ourselves so much that we won't permit our enemies to control our happiness, our health, and our looks

My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." So has mine—so has yours.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

Cuando empezamos la jomada, hay ante nosotros cientos de cosas que sabemos que tenemos que hacer durante el día, pero, si no las tomamos una a una y hacemos que pasen por el día lentamente y a su debido ritmo, como pasan los granos por el estrecho cuello del reloj de arena, estamos destinados a destruir nuestra estructura física o mental, sin escapatoria posible

Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine;

Here is question No. 1—What am I worrying about? (Please pencil the answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 2—What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3—Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4—When am I going to start doing it?

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

El secreto de ser desdichado estriba en tener ocios para pensar si se es feliz o no".

Since worry is one of the biggest problems facing mankind, you would think, wouldn't you, that every high school and college in the land would give a course on "How to Stop Worrying"?

Worries don't bother me any more. No more stomach pains. No more insomnia. I now crumple up yesterday's anxieties and toss them into the wastebasket, and I have ceased trying to wash tomorrow's dirty dishes today.

prepare to cultivate the habit of life of 'day-tight compartments'.

Stress is the trash of modern life—we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. "Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there...

sólo estamos despiertos a medias.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

SMILE!!!!! TODAY is the TOMORROW you worried about YESTERDAY

Very few of us ever walk in the fields and the woods, not talking or singing songs, but just walking quietly and observing things about us and within ourselves. — J. KRISHNAMURTI INDIAN PHILOSOPHER