Quotes About Mindfulness

High-performing people are good at staying almost exclusively focused on what they are responsible for and what they can do right here, right now.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

You're just the same, David. You don't like talking about anything unpleasant." " Who does! " I exclaimed. " But it's like an ostrich, burying its head in the sand! " " Not really," I said thoughtfully. " It's better to be happy and think of nice things instead of being miserable and worrying over nasty things.

where is here, when is now??

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

You only have one vessel. And the more we invest in our bodies, the better we feel about ourselves.

Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.

I often find that I like the vibe of not having technology around me.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

I don't define anything I eat as a vice.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks.