Quotes About Mindfulness

We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art

Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

How were we to know we were happy?

You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

As you ramble on through life, Brother, Whatever be your goal, Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.

As any bank robber can tell you (Nell would say), the best thing to do when running away is not to run. Just walk. Just stroll. A combination of ease and purposefulness is desirable. Then no one will notice you're running. In addition to which, don't carry heavy suitcases, or canvas bags full of money, or packsacks with body parts in them. Leave everything behind you except what's in your pockets. Lightest is best.

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

Keep steady, I told myself. Don't share too much about yourself, it will be used against you. Listen carefully. Save all clues. Don't show fear.

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing