Quotes About Mindfulness

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst days.

Man braucht nicht immer einen Plan. Manchmal reicht es schonn, wenn man ganz tief durchatmet, vertraut und loslässt.

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

I quickly imagined that I could reach my hand into my chest, yank out that awful feeling, place it on an invisibl ecloud of air right in front of me, then push it away. Push it away

But if I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

I'm taking it day by day." I liked saying this. It was honest, short, and seemed to satisfy people.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

We must not run from our unhappiness. We must listen to it. It has much to tell us.

You love your music." "I did when I was trying to shut everything out. Now I'm trying to let everything in.

There was a reason I was so into yoga. I was high-strung(news flash!).

And strangely, even though he still stared at the store, I felt like I had more self-control then he did right then.

and it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours—days, if I have to.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

Being only where you were was incomplete, but being not at all where you were (because you were getting upset by the conversation you were having on your cell phone) was flat-out hazardous. That's when you walked in front of cars.

Being observed felt like an action, the only one worth taking.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

I tried to let myself just... be. It was hard to let not knowing what was about to happen be a good thing. But I tried it out. Being in the moment. Not in the past or in the future. In this moment now.

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for me—food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it as love of oneself.