Quotes About Mindfulness

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

I do old man things by default, just stay in the hotel room, eat oatmeal, and drink tea.

I like the pause that tea allows.

I have never taken supplements or steroids in my life and the only luxury I allow myself is tea.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Ashley Madekwe

If I were going to teach a course, it would be called Don't Breathe Your Own Exhaust.

The funny thing is, we teach - as a culture, we teach people that it's OK to talk about your fitness goals... Like, I want to be more physically fit, I want to drop 10 pounds, but no one's talking about how I can spend 10 days to get happier.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.

When you have a stroke, it changes you... It really teaches you, like, you have to live in the moment.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.

A big thing for me is trying to work on slowing down and not rushing plays, so I can be able to make plays for my teammates.

I'm just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that's all I can really focus on.

You can't control yourself in a game while people are screaming at you, teammates, referees trying to get in the middle. So you end up doing things without thinking.

One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.