Quotes About Mindfulness

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

Building habits is important. One of mine is a weird, small thing, but it's very helpful: I stop eating just before I'm full. I feel so much better throughout the course of the day if I don't pack myself. It's a good way to get more energy.

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it's better when I see it on paper.

I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

I've been taking a lot of time to paint and be in nature. I would say I'm happier as a person. More centered. More free.

People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

There is a difference between caution and panic.

I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.

If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.

It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.