Quotes About Mindfulness

If you don't know how to be happy with what you have, you will never be happy with more.

Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

The first thing on Dr. Amen's master to-do list, the first thing he sees each day, is his gratitude list. Rather than just writing down a few things, he keeps a running tab on what he is grateful for, looks at it every day, and adds to it as joyful moments occur.

We are human beings, not human doings.

To change your life, you must change the way you think. Behind everything you do is a thought. Every behavior is motivated by a belief, and every action is prompted by an attitude.

The Daniel Plan is rooted in a very simple principle: Take the junk out and let the abundance in.

The Daniel Plan is designed to cut cravings, satisfy your appetite, and teach you to listen to your body.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. -Rick Warren

Servants think about their work, not what others are doing.

He wants you to enjoy life, not just endure it.

it's easy to forget that the pursuit of happiness is not what life is about.

Si no sabes cómo ser feliz con lo que tienes, nunca serás feliz con más.

I don't think I'd mind working on a cheese counter. It would leave my mind free to do whatever it wanted - which is nothing in particular, it's true, but I like being alone in my head, I'm used to it.

Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept. A monkish thought that he dismissed.

He didn't make plans himself any more. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

disengaging from the rat race Jackson

One misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.

But sometimes, if I start to picture what's downstairs in the kitchen cupboards and fridge and those bowls on the counter, and try to piece everything together in a series of interesting meals and fill in any gaps with a mental grocery list, it turns into a fun, riveting game so engaging I forget what a horrible person I am and fixate instead on the far more relevant question of what I plan to cook and eat in the near future.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Do not hope; instead, observe" were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot.