Quotes about Mindfulness

One should count each day a separate life.

Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, "No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.

There is a place for good food and beautiful art; what matters is who you share it with. What's just as important as what you eat is who you are eating with. One of my favorite sayings these days is "Simple living does not mean ugly living." We can live in ways that are simple and responsible—and beautiful.

Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.

If we take care of the moments the years will take care of themselves.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.