Quotes About Mindfulness

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

the wealth created by the reduction economy was not one of material things but of time.

We can, each of us, work to put our own inner house in order." He viewed economics through a Buddhist lens, asserting that "the essence of civilization [is] not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.

remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.

If a bomb's coming at you, it's coming at you. You can't go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and go on enjoying your life. Am I right?

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere.

that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

The mental torture went on and on until, on one of those long beach walks where Anna still lived in his mind, Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you.

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful

You can't carry the world's problems on your back. You have to find some happiness in your life, and just do your best with the rest.

future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved

He'd just sit down, shut his eyes, make this little smile, breathe deep and slow for ten minutes. And then he'd be fine and go back to work. Finally, I asked Kumar if he was praying. He said, no, he was meditating. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.

live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's

She closed her eyes, tried to go far away to that mythical green valley in her mind, tried to see it with rainbows in a clearing sky after a summer rain.

remembering what I had forgotten; of rediscovering what had been submerged under mental clutter.

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.