Quotes about Mindfulness

The life you want is right here, right now.

Enjoy the present moment instead of wasting it by trying to predict future unsavory events that may or may not happen.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

If you choose, you are free; if you choose, you need blame no man—accuse no man. All things will be at once according to your mind and according to the Mind of God.

If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.

He who is discontented with what he has, and with what has been granted to him by fortune, is one who is ignorant of the art of living, but he who bears that in a noble spirit, and makes reasonable use of all that comes from it, deserves to be regarded as a good man.

Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law. And if any instance of pain or pleasure, glory or disgrace, be set before you, remember that now is the combat, now the Olympiad comes on, nor can it be put off; and that by one failure and defeat honor may be lost or—won.

Do not wish that all things will go well with you, but that you will go well with all things.

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.