Quotes About Mindfulness

Every day is the prime of your life.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

who brought their knitting in public, just to keep him from the feeling that the clock was ticking at odd hours of the day with nothing to fill the time.

then let him go, losing himself in the Zen of pain control once more.

You should be too busy watering your own grass to notice if someone else's is greener.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Worry is not the same as fear; it's the practice of indulging fear, clinging to it, feeding and serving

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. —L. H. BAILEY, Manual of Gardening, 1910

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Ne pas alourdir ses pensées du poids de ses souliers

How can one make the best of one's life? By converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget... Here we are on this earth, with only a few decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

Es prudente oír música antes del desayuno.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past