Quotes About Mindfulness

Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not Christians will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. (1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 NLT)

Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

Anger's not a good emotion.

The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

We need to join the war Jesus waged against fear and it's twin sister, worry.

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes every day, unless you're too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.

Who looks back with pride at the end of the year (or at the end of their lives) on how much TV they watched, or how many Facebook posts they commented on? Most likely, every moment in your life you remember with fondness and pride took effort…and effort often means stress.

I am not obsessive about anything except my health.

don't ever let anger do your talking for you!

Is your day the one that you really wanted or is it the day that turned up?

take a deep breath. Keep your body fully in the present and your mind in the recent future. Don't let the past get in your way.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6]

it's helpful to focus your child's attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.

stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies.

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through