Quotes About Mindfulness

If you're doing takeout, try to get the healthiest takeout you can. And just take it out of the plastic, right? Get your grandma's old china or get a fancy little bowl, and put the takeout in the bowl and light a candle.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

You know those days when you think you have to have a plate of pasta right now? When I'm trying to be good, I take a minute to ask myself, 'Do you really need to eat all this crazy stuff? It will still be around if you want it later.'

Every meal is a conscious effort to stay disciplined and understand what's on your plate.

Even when I eat, I'll eat my salad first and sort of work around the plate.

If you look at my plate, I only have salad, chicken, and juice, and that's how I am.

Play every game as if it is your last one.

I just go out there and play basketball. I'm not worried about missing. I just got to be thinking about the next shot.

I try to enjoy the moment, I like to play football, and every time I go on the pitch, I try my best.

I think it's important to feel good so that the football can take care of itself. If everything else is organised and ready to go, then you're free to play football.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

A lot of coaches and players get so tunnel-visioned that when they do have some time off, they spend it concentrating on the game.

But at least if you are with your kid in a playground, be there mentally as well as physically, even for 20 minutes. Focus means everything to a child.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

I think in a way that's part of getting older, appreciating the simple pleasures of being in the garden.

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.