Quotes About Mindfulness

I like watching anime or music videos and stuff like that, just to get my mind somewhere else, to make it feel like I'm not in the arena, not in the gym, so when I step on the court, I'm locked in.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.

We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

I learned that a sense of privacy doesn't have to depend on walls and doors. At least not external ones. Two people could sit in a room and read or work separately without ever breaking the silence. It's an ability to put up walls in your mind, so no one can get through.

Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.

you can't go looking for happiness as if it were a shoe you lost under the bed. You already have it, you see? You just have to let yourself be.

Casey was telling Luna to live in the moment, to enjoy the easy gifts that life offered. But Luna couldn't help but feel a faint threat in the subtext.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

Comparison is and will always be the thief of all joy.

live life to appreciate life.

I keep telling you, when you can't control the action, control the emotion.

Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy. —John Franzese CHAPTER

People that worry about where they're going next generally don't end up where they think they're going. I just worry about what I'm doing now and try to make it good. When you've got too much of a master plan, it's going to fail.

If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?

To him, the day was what was offered, not what wasn't.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway? Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.

Don't borrow trouble from round the bend,