Quotes About Mindfulness

Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life.

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.

I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away.

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

We don't need an abundance of things.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

I don't believe in success, I don't believe in achievements so to speak. I just believe in relishing every moment of my life. That's enough for me.

I've never acted fully impulsively. I think with my mind and my heart.

You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

There's this kind of pressure to be creative or busy most of the time, with lots of activities and progress, and I'm trying to run from that.

I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.

Whatever I'm doing at that moment, I try to only focus on that because I'm already ADD.