Quotes about Mindfulness

Destructive emotions, such as anger, hatred, and jealousy don't hurt others; they hurt you. They can make your life miserable. They can make you sick. Forgive everyone who ever hurt you—really forgive them—and then forgive yourself. That's all past.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.

There is no occasion when meals should become totally unimportant. Meals can be very small indeed, very inexpensive, short times taken in the midst of a big push of work, but they should be always more than just food.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.