Quotes About Mindfulness

Since September 2013, I have been in a really good place with my health. But I still have to be conscious about keeping it in that good place and taking care of myself.

I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

I guess I don't think sometimes, and sometimes that's a good thing and sometimes that's a bad thing.

I'm focused on the good things and that makes you really appreciate what you are doing with the team and the time you are out there on the court.

You never realize that good things are going to be over some day.

Poetry is a mode of consciousness.

Ma è sempre così: il tempo di distogliere il pensiero dal quotidiano, da se stessi e dallo spezzatino, e ti scappa un'idiozia.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

I did not see anything because I was so caught up in an inner dialogue. So, stop and see. Become more sensitive, more aware, more alive to our own humanness, to the humanness of each other.

There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business, as we journey, to keep our eyes peeled for it.

Be merciful to yourself, stop fighting yourself quite so much. Maybe what you are asking of yourself, what you're driving yourself to do or to be, what you put a gun to your own back to make yourself do, is something at this point you needn't have to think about doing. So, think back at the end of the day to the wars you're involved in. How are they going?

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors.

It seems to me almost before the Bible says anything else, it is saying that—how important it is to be alive and to pay attention to being alive, pay attention to each other, pay attention to God as he moves and as he speaks. Pay attention to where life or God has tried to take you.

Writing does a lot of other things, of course. People write books to instruct. They write books to move us, to scare us, to enlighten us in all sorts of ways. But basically what these works of literature or of art are doing is to say, Stop thinking. Stop expecting. Stop living in the past. Stop living in the future. Stop doing anything and just pay attention to this.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.