Quotes About Mindfulness

Anger Is A Gift

Het geluk behoort toe aan de tevredenen

And he is by no means apt to make laments about things which cannot be helped, or requests about those which are trivial; because to be thus disposed with respect to these things is consequent only upon real anxiety about them.

You don't have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.

Solitude was no excuse for sloppiness.

Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

If my typical man wishes to live fully and completely he must, in his mind, arrange a day within a day. And this inner day, a Chinese box in a larger Chinese box, must begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 a.m. It is a day of sixteen hours; and during all these sixteen hours he has nothing whatever to do but cultivate his body and his soul and his fellow men.

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.

The cause of suffering is desire

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

It is that the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.

The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important

Be cool, my fevered brain. And it wouldn't hurt you, body, to take a tumble in the snow.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

You've got to live in the moment. Do what has to be done right now. Prepare for what will need to be done later.

It is not possible, I frequently think, to walk down the street as fast as you can and kick yourself at the same time.