Quotes About Mindfulness

We all have those moments when you're sitting in your feelings and you're sitting in your thoughts and you're taking in what your current situation is.

I'm trying to cut down my cursing.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

I need to sleep more. The 'sleep when I die' mantra is not cute.

My body is covered with bruises from pinching myself on a daily basis.

I think there's more to be happy about than sad about on a daily basis.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day.

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Take a deep breath. When the game comes, no matter what happens, you can always keep your cool. I'm a bit of a hot head, a bit of a spaz, so it really helps me calm myself down during the game.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.