Quotes About Mindfulness

I've learned to resist my inclination to meet an expectation unthinkingly, and to ask, "Why am I meeting this expectation, anyway?

The most important thing is to know ourselves, and to choose the strategies that work for us.

With habits, we conserve our [limited] self-control.

Exercise for sanity not vanity.

For this reason, we should pay close attention to the convenience of any activity we want to make into a habit.

An unmade bed is a common broken window, which is why "Make the bed" is one of the most popular happiness-project resolutions, and in fact, as Charles Duhigg points out in his fascinating book The Power of Habit, the habit of bed making is correlated with a sense of greater well-being and higher productivity.

Accomplish more by working less.

In The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds notes, "I stand on one foot when I brush my teeth at night.

It was interesting to have a better sense of my daily habits

By finding my reward within the habit itself, with a reward that takes me deeper into the habit. If I look outside a habit for a reward, I undermine the habit. If I look within the habit for the reward, I strengthen the habit.

For this reason, it's all the more important to try to shape habits mindfully, so that when we fall back on them at times of stress, we're following activities that make our situation better, not worse.

leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it's not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do. Having

book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar

Habit makes it dangerously easy to become numb to our own existence.

When life is taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered.

Our "always in a hurry" ways of living seemed doubly insignificant. Intimacy with weather, terrain, and pronghorn taught me to hold each foot-worn trail in my mind as it deepened. I liked to think that a "green light" glowed inside those animals, instructing them how to survive and eat well. We humans might do the same and, in the process, vernalize our minds.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Tenha cuidado com a tristeza. É um vício.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

Cuidado con la tristeza. Es un vicio.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

But life is not a series of deeds. My life is my thoughts.

El futuro nos tortura y el pasado nos encadena. He ahí por qué se nos escapa el presente.

One way to prevent yourself from going through a considerable amount of useless pain is to see the truth of the following and then to act upon your discovery accordingly: judging others doesn't change how much they disturb you; it serves only to distract you from seeing just how little it actually takes to set you off.