Quotes about Mindfulness
To do two things at once is to do neither.
— Publilius Syrus
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
— Marcus Aurelius
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
— Francis de Sales
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
— James Freeman Clarke
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
— Epictetus
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
— Marianne Williamson
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
— Epictetus
He has enough who is contented with little.
— Anonymous
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.
— Epicurus
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
— Marcus Aurelius