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Quotes About Mindfulness

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
~ Marsden Hartley
Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.
~ Martha Beck
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
~ Mary Oliver
What I like doing best is Nothing.
~ A. A. Milne
There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
~ Adyashanti
You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
~ Andre Gide
Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.
~ Anuj
Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's problems and challenges.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
~ bell hooks
A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.
~ Benjamin Hoff
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
~ Bernie Siegel
The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.
~ Bradford Winters
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
~ Byron Katie
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
~ Gautama Buddha
Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center.
~ Gautama Buddha
The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
~ George H. Brimhall
I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.
~ Grigor Dimitrov
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.
~ Guy Finley
You know how to drive a car, but you do not know how to drive your life!
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.
~ Harold Feinstein
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.
~ Henry Rollins