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Quotes About Mindfulness

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.
~ Deepak Chopra
Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.
~ Deepak Chopra
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
~ Edna O'Brien
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
~ Alan Watts
Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.
~ Frederick Lenz
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
~ Alan Cohen
In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.
~ Deepak Chopra
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
~ Hugh Prather
Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.
~ Deepak Chopra
I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.
~ Russell Simmons
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
~ Seneca the Younger
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
~ Pema Chodron
Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
~ Ann Voskamp
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.
~ Unknown
Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
~ Isabel Allende
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
~ Epictetus
Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
~ Marianne Williamson