Quotes about Mindfulness
Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'
- Marcus Aurelius
Either you're going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
- Marcus Aurelius
The best answer to anger is silence.
- Marcus Aurelius
You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.
- Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
- Marcus Aurelius
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- Marcus Aurelius
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
- Cicero
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Cicero
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
- Cicero
The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.
- Margaret Atwood