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Quotes About Mindfulness

Comparison is the thief of joy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~ Jacques Prévert
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
~ Elsa Maxwell
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy
~ Shantideva
Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
~ Andrew Weil
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
~ Antonio Gala
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
~ John Robbins
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
~ Alan Watts
Know your own happiness.
~ Jane Austen
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.
~ Buddhadasa
Happiness is not a future event.
~ Joe Fortenberry
Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
~ David Hume
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.
~ Deepak Chopra
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
~ Carl Sandburg
Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
~ Euripides
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
~ Ram Dass