Quotes about Mindfulness
I will speak that I may find relief; for there is a redemptive quality for an agitated mind in the spoken word, and a tormented soul finds peace in confessing.
— Joseph Soloveitchik
What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh.
— AA Milne
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
— AA Milne
But, Eeyore," said Pooh, "was it a Joke, or an Accident? I mean--" "I didn't stop to ask, Pooh. Even at the very bottom of the river I didn't stop to say to myself, '*Is* this a Hearty Joke, or is it the Merest Accident?' I just floated to the surface, and said to myself, 'It's wet.' If you know what I mean.
— AA Milne
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
— Wayne Dyer
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.
— Marianne Williamson
We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
— Vernon Howard
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
— Henry David Thoreau
God is the God of "right now." He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you … right now.
— Priscilla Shirer
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
— Publilius Syrus