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Quotes About Mindfulness

You are lucky to be alive. Inhale and take in life's wonders. Never take so much as a single petal of a single flower for granted.
~ Matt Haig
Always be aware of what you are doing, and why you are doing it.
~ Matt Haig
Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.
~ Matt Haig
Add a comma to your day
~ Matt Haig
Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.
~ Matt Haig
Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind
~ Matt Haig
In those moments that burst alive the present lasts for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.
~ Matt Haig
To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own nonupgraded existence.
~ Matt Haig
Don't spend your life worrying about what you are missing out on. Not to be Buddhist about it—okay, to be a little Buddhist about it—life isn't about being pleased with what you are doing, but about what you are being.
~ Matt Haig
Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing - indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.
~ Matt Haig
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.
~ Matt Haig
In those moments that burst alive the present lasts forever, and I know there are many more presents to live.
~ Matt Haig
That change can take different forms. It can mean using technology to help our minds, by getting an app that limits our social media use, or getting a dimmer switch, or walking more, or being more considerate to people online, or choosing a car less likely to contaminate the air. Being kind to ourselves and being kind to the planet is, ultimately, the same thing. 'Progress
~ Matt Haig
Metsä Haluan, että Hidastat Haluan, että Kaikki hidastuu; Haluan tehdä hetkestä Metsän Ja elää siinä metsässä Ikuisesti Ennen kuin menet.
~ Matt Haig
You are the observer of your mind, not its victim
~ Matt Haig
How to be happy (2) Don't compare your actual self to a hypothetical self. Don't drown in a sea of "what if"s. Don't clutter your mind by imagining other versions of you, in parallel universes, where you made different decisions.
~ Matt Haig
You are you. The past is the past. The only way to make a better life is from inside the present. To focus on regret does nothing but turn that very present into another thing you will wish you did differently. Accept your own reality. Be human enough to make mistakes. Be human enough not to dread the future. Be human enough to be, well, enough. Accepting where you are in life makes it so much easier to be happy for other people without feeling terrible about yourself.
~ Matt Haig
Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel.
~ Matt Haig
When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. "Everybody dies," wrote Nora Ephron." There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.
~ Matt Haig
The quiet made her realize how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning. You heard something and you had to pay attention.
~ Matt Haig
We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays.
~ Matt Haig
the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment'.
~ Matt Haig
Kurt Vonnegut was right. "Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
~ Matt Haig
Learn to say to no things that get in the way of life. And to say yes to the things that help you live.
~ Matt Haig