Quotes about Mindfulness
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- Thomas Merton
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.
- Thomas Merton
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
- Thomas Merton
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
- Thomas Merton
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
- Thomas Merton
Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.
- Thomas Merton
We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.
- Thomas Watson
Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world:
- Thomas Watson
You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.
- Tim Henman
If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Live your life and forget your age.
- Norman Vincent Peale