Quotes About Mindfulness

Today, love and forgive.. That´s all you need to do --- one day at a time

So we come upon the radical idea that happiness is not about how many good times we've had and bummers we haven't had, but from being willing to greet life as it occurs, to meet it and respond in its gush and flow. We don't attach ourselves to the contents of life, but we celebrate the very process of being alive.

Acceptance is not something we can give to a person or thing. It only exists as a function of our relationship to our own experience.

what truly makes us happy is letting go of our fantasies about the future and instead engaging in the journey, in the process, and in the present moment.

I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I'm going to spend time and energy thinking and acting in a way that will increase my chances of feeling happy as often as possible. It's not about being happy just like that, here and now, whistling up happiness like a dog. But I can pave the way for happiness. I can open my eyes and my mind, in the same way that I make myself present when I'm walking in a forest, instead of remaining wrapped in my worries about yesterday and tomorrow.

La vacuité d'un phénomène ou d'une chose, ce n'est pas son inexistence ni son absence, mais sa nature instable, mobile, subjective, complexe…

La non-action, c'est la respiration de l'action. C'est comme le silence après le bruit. C'est s'efforcer, dans bien des moments de son quotidien, de ne pas passer tout de suite à autre chose, à une autre action. Décider de prendre le temps, non pas de réfléchir mais de ressentir, de se laisser doucement envahir par le sillage de ce que l'on vient de faire, et la présence de l'instant.

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

But my illness, even in its absence, made it hard for me to enjoy life. Good health means being unaware of one's health. I was not yet unaware.

ja jos koko ajan ajattelen kuolemaa se ei yllätä minua koskaan

Güzel bir söz vard?r: hiçbir ÅŸey. Hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünme. BaÅŸbakan? düÅŸünme, Katolikleri de düÅŸünme. Küvette aÄŸlayan, terliklerine kahve damlayan o palyaçoyu düÅŸün.

But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

It was something he'd learned in the war: only think about what is directly in front of you. ... plan ahead all the time... but (don't ) feel ahead.

If you don't know what to do with the rest of your life, make your bed. If you're going to be a couch potato, at least fluff the pillows. If you can't afford pearls, red nail polish is your best accessory. If you don't have time to do your nails, smile and stand up straight.

You don't have to chase every bird that you see.

Before you say anything censorious about anyone, ask yourself three questions: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If the answer to any one of these is even a qualified no, you'd best be quiet." And she remembered it. Miss

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

Forgetting takes practice…You have to work at it.