Quotes About Mindfulness

No; never repeat that foolish gossip, and forget it as soon as you can.

I never thought I should like to wash dishes, but I do, said Rose, as she sat in a boat after supper lazily rinsing plates in the sea, and rocking luxuriously as she wiped them.

When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful

If only we had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many things they actually could do. So they asked an old woman what spell they could use to make them happy, and she said, 'When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.

I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked

but you must keep watch over your 'bosom enemy,' as Father calls it, or it may sadden, if not spoil your life. You have had a warning. Remember it, and try with heart and soul to master this quick temper, before it brings you greater sorrow and regret than you have known today.

Convinieron en dejar de quejarse, gozar de lo que ya tenían y tratar de merecerlo, no fuera que lo perdiesen en vez de que aumentara y creo que nunca se arrepintieron.

Para mí yo no busco otra corona que la que todos pueden pretender, ni ansío la conquista de otro mundo que el que está dentro de mi propio ser.

Let's imagine how we might grow as writers if we work in a slow writing way rather than rushing through our work trying to accumulate a pile of pages. Just imagine what we might gain from being writers who move slowly through our work and slowly through our lives.

Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

Maybe this was what being in a pandemic brought forth. When everything big is out of control, you start taking charge of small things.

Those are the only things which really seem to do him any good.

This is what we want," she said, her voice deepening, the emotion so often controlled fully unbridled now. "To be like this always. No past or future, pure enough to live totally in the present.

la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa. Y es verdad que perdemos el tiempo preocupándonos por nimiedades, que nos aturdimos y nos empecinamos tontamente, que tendemos a pensar que la auténtica vida está por llegar.

Cómo había podido ser tan descuidada para vivir sin darse cuenta de que vivía, para extraviar con miserable desidia tantos años.

Cuanto más se envejece, más se siente que saber gozar del presente es un don precioso, comparable a un estado de gracia.»

Es un runrún creativo que te acompaña mientras conduces, cuando paseas al perro, mientras estás en la cama intentando dormir. Uno escribe todo el rato.

John Lennon: la vida es eso que sucede mientras nosotros nos ocupamos de otra cosa.

I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

you've got enough

Wasting time changes the nature of time.