Quotes About Mindfulness

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.

I think prayer is one of the greatest healers around, more than medication.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

To me, the time in the car is very precious, and I want to fully enjoy it.

When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.

For some people to say, 'I just go up there and hit it,' we'll that's good for you. If it works for you, it works for you. But I want to be as precise as possible heading into that shot.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

I don't have any preconceived ideas of myself. I just take things as they come.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.

Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.

I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals.

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.