Quotes about Mindfulness

The true power of staying in the now means that you resist projecting what might happen in the future or lamenting past mistakes.

Life is the pitcher and we're missing the pitcher when we're so focused on that one element. It doesn't matter if your glass is half-full or half-empty if there's a pitcher of water right next to you. And we need to look at the full picture to see the full pitcher.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace- a connection to what matters.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

We all have two lives, your second one begins when you realize you've only got one.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

When anger arises, think of the consequences.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.