Quotes About Mindfulness

Walking makes the mind work

perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…

You've got to pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

Yet the explanation was simple. These memories had died of inanition. You've got the pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

The grateful heart that springs forth in joy is not acquired in a moment; it is the fruit of a thousand choices.

To own silence . . . How odd that one does not appreciate something, nor even realize its absence, until it is presented as an unexpected gift.

And though I continually fight impatience, in all but this vice... I am truly content.

Without going within, I go without.

Practice alternating your focus between the big picture and small detail by allowing your eyes to focus broadly, then narrowing in on detail, going back and forth several times during a standard painting session. This movement from big to small and its reverse keeps your right brain active. It also helps integrate parts of your image to the whole.

How do you "re-parent" yourself? Even if you know how to parent someone else—that doesn't mean you know how to parent yourself.

There are no miraculous responses that will make intense feelings of fear, rage, sadness, and jealousy just disappear in a cloud of smoke.

The Stoics are exhorters. And at their best, they exhort us to rise to our potential through reason, cooperation, and selflessness.

Epictetus opens the Encheiridion with that dichotomy of control: "Some things are up to us and some are not up to us . . . If is one of those things that is not up to us, be ready to say, 'You are nothing in relation to me.

human beings are the only creatures to spend the present driving themselves crazy about the future.

It can change the way you feel about things," Eleanor reminded her. "A walk by the sea is always good for the soul.

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

The focus of contentment is Christ. The focus of discontent is the trouble.

Some people say it is okay to be fat but you must think of being healthy,I personally think loving yourself ,your body is the healthiest thing one can do.

Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Haal adem. Haal nog één keer adem. Elke keer dat je ademhaalt, leef je.

The stress in your journey depends on how you walk.

It is your own thought that takes you away from the joy of the moment.

Shikataganai, desho

From childhood, Japanese are accustomed to eating portions that are a third smaller than or even half of American portions. And