Quotes about Mindfulness
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
— Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
— Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
— Henry David Thoreau
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
— Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
— Henry David Thoreau
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
— Henry David Thoreau
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
— Henry David Thoreau
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
— Henry David Thoreau
Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.
— Henry David Thoreau