Quotes About Mindfulness

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day,

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing.

All he could do was try to focus, to put his attention on the woman right in front of him and the angle of her shoulder that meant she was about to shift her bag. To the man about to speak to his friend. To the little girl who looked a lot like Kate—no, push that away, no time now to think about Kate—reaching up for her mother's hand. When

the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)