Quotes About Mindfulness

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

If it isn't urgent, worry about it later

A serious-minded man enjoys a good laugh now and then.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

No pienso nunca en el futuro porque llega muy pronto.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Try to remember the last time you felt extremely angry. Recall what you focused upon and how you acted. Were you able to reasonably consider good courses of action? Were you able to look at all your options? Did you make the best decision? Do you regret something you said or did? If you are like most people, you will see that you hardly think and behave at your best when you feel enraged.

REBT's Insight No. 1 holds that you have both healthy and unhealthy emotions

We had better rate our important parts-our thoughts, feelings, and actions-to see how they helped or hindered us. But-damn it!-we didn't have to rate our self, our being, our essence. Our self or personhood was too complex to be given a global rating. We could say, for practical reasons, it was good-meaning it helped us to live and enjoy. Or we could say that it just didn't have to be rated at all. Use our self but not rate it!

El ignorante ataca con la boca. El sabio se defiende con el silencio.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Start by being fully aware of what you think you are. It'll help you to become aware of what you are in fact.

That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.