Quotes about Mindfulness
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
— Joseph Addison
Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.
— James Arthur
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
— Anne Lamott
I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.
— Mike Posner
We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.
— Robin Sharma
It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
— Tony Robbins
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
— Wayne Dyer
Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
— Henri Nouwen
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
— Marcus Aurelius