Quotes about Mindfulness
Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.
— Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
— Henry David Thoreau
The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.
— Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing to definite - only a sense of existence
— Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
— Henry David Thoreau
It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.
— Henry David Thoreau
They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still.
— Henry David Thoreau
that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
— Henry David Thoreau