Quotes About Mindfulness

Building mental strength is about learning to regulate your thoughts, manage your emotions, and behave productively despite whatever circumstances you find yourself in.

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Some people are totally fine with just checking Instagram once a day and then putting their phone down. But with me... self regulation is very difficult and it's a battle.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

I believe that if you reject and don't respect what you have now, that's ingratitude. I'm grateful for everything I have today.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.

I'm a relatively unfocused person.

I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both. But you have to learn how to get along. I did an awful lot of fighting. I was tough, but I'm also relatively small, so I learned very early on to use my mind.

Relax! Life is beautiful!

I like to have quiet evenings and relax.

I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I'm a lazy person, but if I'm not absent-mindedly doing something, I can't really relax. I can't just veg out.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly enough. Even when I have conversations, I need to work on my breathing, so it's something I enjoy because it's peaceful and it helps me relax.

I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.

When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.

I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.