Quotes About Mindfulness

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

I think that whenever you feel reactive or are being reactive as opposed to proactive, that inherently - consciously or subconsciously - creates a lot of stress.

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Whenever I wake up, I'm up. I don't lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.

Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that's always a clear understanding that I'm not going to feel good that day.

I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

You can be happy where you are.

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

Wherever you are - be all there.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

There's so much pressure on women to have it all together. There's always this 'next, next, next.' I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.