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Quotes About Mindfulness

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
~ John Cage
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.
~ Emily Dickinson
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~ Joseph Joubert
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~ A. E. Housman
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.
~ Kay Ryan
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
~ e. e. cummings
The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.
~ Nicole Blackman, Blood Sugar
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
~ Rajneesh
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.
~ Langston Hughes
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
~ Mary Oliver, Red Bird
To live day by dayIs not to live at all.
~ Conrad Kent Rivers
A poem a day keeps the doctor away.
~ Jill Telford
Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.
~ Na'ama Yehuda
No reprimand in the mirrorSlow walk to LiberiaSlow dance across the SaharaSlow unraveling of gray matter
~ Mellon Black, 23 Locked Doors
If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
~ Eugene McCarthy
I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.
~ Usain Bolt
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
~ Alice Morse Earle
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~ Robert Breault
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
~ Lord Byron
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."
~ Deepak Chopra