Quotes about Mindfulness

I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows: wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the habits of survival and love.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.

Humans have between what happens to us and our response to it.

We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same?

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power—the freedom to choose.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.

Make decisions based on our values and not how we felt in the moment.