Quotes About Mindfulness

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

Don't be one of those souls who says, 'If only I had my life to live over.' Live your life in such a way that once is enough.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

Don't worry about my life, worry about why you're worried about my life!

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

I don't take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

Think with the whole body.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.