Quotes About Mindfulness

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last

16. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. Color it with a run of thoughts like these:

Medita en los principios rectores de otros[260], de qué huyen y qué persiguen.

man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.

No one can hurt me but myself, for no one else can make me forsake the good and embrace the bad.

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

Have you reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? When it performs its proper office what more do you require?

Jangan bertingkah seolah-olah kau akan hidup hingga sepuluh ribu tahun. Kematian ada di dekatmu. Selama kau masih diberkahi hidup, selagi kau masih punya kemampuan, jadilah orang yang baik.

Dread of death is a dread of non-sensation or new sensation. But either thou wilt feel no sensation, and so no sensation of any evil; or a different kind of sensation will be thine, and so the life of a different creature, but still a life.

Not easily is a man found to be unhappy by reason of his not regarding what is going on in another man's soul; but those who do not attend closely to the motions of their own souls must inevitably be unhappy.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

Acostumbrarme a la idea de que es necesario corregir el carácter y vigilar las inclinaciones

No mostrar nunca la apariencia de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión

Bethink thee how much more grievous are the consequences of our anger and vexation at such actions than are the acts themselves which arouse that anger and vexation.

La perfección moral lleva consigo que se viva cada día como si fuere el ultimo, sin apresurarse ni amilanarse, ni obrar con ficción.

that the happy life depends on the fewest possible things;

In every action ask thyself, How does it affect me? Shall I regret it? But

If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, thou wilt gain more command over it.

This day have I got me out of all trouble, or rather have cast out all trouble, for it was not from without, but within, in my own imagination.

Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's sake, but for thine own nature's sake; as if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should ever be saying to themselves, Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, I must still be an emerald, and I must keep my colour.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before this moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus, and live it as nature directs. p66