Quotes about Mindfulness

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

If right now our emotional reaction to seeing a certain person or hearing certain news is to fly into a rage or to get despondent or something equally extreme, it's because we have been cultivating that particular habit for a very long time.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

Don't borrow trouble from round the bend,

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

It's a lesson I'm trying to learn from him, this living squarely in the present. I am a planner and a worrier. I torment myself by mentally replaying my past mistakes, wishing I'd been smarter, wishing I'd been stronger, wishing I'd made different choices. I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.