Quotes About Mindfulness

Where do you suppose he got that high brow?

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

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Ciò che una volta presente non ci turba, stoltamente atteso ci fa impazzire.

Il vero saggio, come non gli dispiace vivere, così non teme di non vivere più. La vita per lui non è un male, né è un male il non vivere. Ma come dei cibi sceglie i migliori, non la quantità, così non il tempo più lungo si gode, ma il più dolce.

Stay calm and pedal on

He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.