Quotes About Mindfulness

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

Counting each day's blessings helps you overcome each week's troubles.

Fence your mind against negative thoughts; build a high wall against evil ones.

He who desires less has less worries; he who desires more has more worries.

Raise your thoughts, not your fists.

The ears are better listeners than the tongue.

Who mourns makes grief his master. Who drinks makes pleasure his master.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the flood of its sweet scent.

Chrysanthemum Silence - monk Sips his morning tea.

A bush-warbler, Coming to the verandah-edge, Left its droppings On the rice-cakes.

To talk casually About an iris flower Is one of the pleasures Of the wandering journey.

Sparrow, spare the horsefly dallying in flowers.

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.

The less we choose to need, and the less we rely on comfortable, favorable circumstances for peace of mind, the more control we have over our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. "Pain is the purifier," he taught. "Walk towards suffering. Love suffering. Embrace it.

The reason you are a runner is that you enjoy running. The objective of everything you do as a runner should be to increase our preserve your enjoyment of running.

Self-awareness plays a key role in stopping fear and laziness from standing in the way of accepting a reality that must be accepted in order to make the best of a bad situation.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.

The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here. Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?

Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.