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Quotes About Mindfulness

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Life is consciousness.
~ Emmet Fox
By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
~ Epictetus
At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.
~ Epictetus
Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.
~ Eric Butterworth
To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.
~ Michael Neill
The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.
~ Mos Def
Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
~ Nhat Hanh
Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.
~ Ram Dass
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.
~ Ram Dass
The ways we miss our lives are life.
~ Randall Jarrell
Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.
~ Gautama Buddha
By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
~ Jack Kerouac
So many people are so busy being busy that they don't spend time on the foundation of their life.
~ Jairek Robbins
I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.
~ Banksy
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
~ Joss Whedon
Just live well. Just live
~ Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
~ Anais Nin
I have never judged life. If I had, I would have been a complete mess.
~ Anupam Kher
Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
~ Bruce Lee
Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.
~ Gautama Buddha
When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare
~ Gautama Buddha