Quotes About Mindfulness

Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.

Oh, one world at a time!

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Sometimes it's easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

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Surely joy is the condition of life. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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I don't see the mind, body, and spirit as separate things—they are just different reflections of a unified whole.

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