Quotes About Mindfulness

Every day, I wake up and ask, 'Am I hungry?' If I'm physically hungry, I eat something that's hopefully good for me, and then do it again in a few hours. If I get a phone call I don't like, I'll say to myself, 'Is that the reason I want to eat something?' If it is, I try not to do it. It's literally a lifestyle.

I think it's really important to find the right balance for you - a way of eating and living that satisfies you physically and mentally - and that's different for everyone.

Feeling physically strong in the morning truly helps me keep focused the rest of the day.

I follow Ayurveda, but above everything, I believe in being healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally.

For me fitness is not only having a good physique but it is the overall lifestyle which I follow in my life.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

I believe in Buddhism. Not every aspect, but most of it. So I take bits and pieces.

Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

I like to do Pilates.

I will never do Pilates. I walk.

Pilates is amazing. It makes you conscious of how you have been doing something incorrectly for so long, even something as simple as just standing there.

I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.

You don't need any heavy, expensive equipment, and you can do Pilates anywhere, anytime.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

I pinch myself daily.