Quotes About Mindfulness

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

I've stopped taking myself seriously because now I understand how fickle my thoughts are.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I watch what I eat. I'm careful with exercise. I do enough to try to stay healthy, but I don't overdo, and I pace myself... Most important of all though, I try to think healthy thoughts.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

We have to push aside what generally concerns us most in our thought life, namely, the content of our thoughts, and learn instead to make conscious use of the element of will in our thinking.