Quotes About Mindfulness

A still tongue makes a happy life.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

A Warrior is never in a hurry.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

A threat need not provoke a response if it is not taken up.

A warrior of light needs both patience and speed. He treats each situation as if it were unique.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.