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Quotes About Mindfulness

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
~ Anna Godbersen, Rumors
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
~ Carolyn Wells
Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
~ Patricia McCormick, Sold
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
~ Brad Warner
Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination
~ Ed Foreman
Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
~ Chris Hardwick
Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
The awareness in the moment serves you the most when you are about to create your imagination into a reality.
~ Roshan Sharma
When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.
~ Dalai Lama
Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!
~ Gautama Buddha
He only is rich who owns the day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
~ Omar Khayyam
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
~ Marcel Proust
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer
A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
~ Andrew Carnegie