Quotes about Mindfulness

often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget … Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death…. The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past…. The future is today…. There is no tomorrow. The day of man's salvation is now.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, / And accrue what I hear into myself....and let sounds contribute / toward me.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

There's joy all around, if you only look for it.

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.