Quotes About Mindfulness

The thing is to be happy," he said. "No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

The job she had to do, as she saw it, was to remember everything—and by "remember" she meant experience it in her mind, one more time—then store it away forever. This day's experience set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside.

Life is always so full. Getting and spending we lay waste to our powers. Why do we let ourselves be so busy and miss doing things we should have, or would have, liked to do?

En su momento pensó que no podría vivir sin café, pero resulta que en realidad lo que quiere entre las manos es el tazón caliente; eso es lo que ayuda a pensar o a hacer lo que haga durante la sucesión de las horas, o de los días.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

If I was aware I would have to tie laces I would not have been able to put my feet into socks.

How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

If my mind is crowded with ideas or thoughts or plans or other people's creations there is less room for my own.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Even if we live forever, we'll never get to a place where we can honestly say: There's nothing happening here; I'm bored. Or, you can be bored, I guess, but you can never say it's because nothing is happening. Something is always happening. In fact, everything is always happening .

It is a way of saying you must not live too much in your head. It is a way of reminding you to stay in your emotions, no matter how nutty they are; it is a way of saying, also, that craziness has value.

I think it pisses God off it you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. - The Color Purple

We're asleep, said Suni. Just walking and talking, eating and shitting. Sound asleep. And we have to be that way, of course, said Anne. It's the human equivalent of fallowness. Spiritual hibernation, said Suni.

Alice Walker "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it.

Quand t'as envie de prier et que l'homme se met devant toi comme si c'était pour lui, envoie-le balader. Pense aux petites fleurs, au vent, à l'eau, à un gros cailloux.

it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I know what I'm thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.

If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.