Quotes About Mindfulness

It turns out that most of us aren't aware of how we actually spend our time or what we really do all day until we break it down hour by hour and say it out loud.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

There's a magnet that somebody stuck on the refrigerator in our office's kitchen: PEACE. IT DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. IT MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART.

But feelings are actually more like weather systems—they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn't mean you'll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

I would have to cope with not knowing what my future held, manage my worry, and focus on living now.

Feeling your sadness or anxiety can also give you essential information about yourself and your world.

our awareness of death helps us live more fully—and with less, not more, anxiety.

Wendell once pointed out that we talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but that our words aren't always kind or true or helpful

Maybe everything they complain about isn't actually a problem! Maybe it's fine the way it is. Maybe it's even great, like their haircut. Maybe they'd be happier if they didn't try to change things. Just be.

identifying his in-the-moment feelings, because feelings lead to behaviors. Once we know what we're feeling, we can make choices about where we want to go with them.

I particularly liked this quote from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Wouldn't it be nice to be one of those people who doesn't overthink anything, who just goes with the flow—who lives the unexamined life?

Spend less time on his future, more on my present." Wendell nods,

It's well documented that touch is important for well-being throughout our lifetimes. Touch can lower blood pressure and stress levels, boost moods and immune systems.

There's a difference between pain and suffering. You're going to have to feel pain -- everyone feels pain at times -- but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering. ... If I'm clinging to the suffering so tightly, I must be getting something out of it. It must be serving some purpose for me.

When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface.

Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions.

I particularly liked this line from Frankl's book: "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

There's a difference between pain and suffering. You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering.

Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

There's a difference between pain and suffering," Wendell says. "You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering.

Looking death in the eye would force them to live more fully—not in the future, with some long list of goals, but right now.

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained. "They'll be there regardless, so you might as well welcome them