Quotes about Mindfulness

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

A happy moment can last a lifetime if you remember to smile when you think of it.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.