Quotes About Mindfulness

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

So, just make the right reads and the ball will always come back around to you. Taking the right shots and not forcing anything. Just let the game slow down and play free.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up.

We may not realise it, but dancing is a form of meditation.

I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

When I would meditate, I realised I could master my mind.

My routine is very simple because I realised that the more complicated the exercise sessions are, the less likely I am to make it for them. They have to be simple and doable in my daily routine.