Quotes about Mindfulness

Sometimes I'd get mad because things didn't work out so well, I'd spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I'd be so mad I'd want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head

Life is holy and every moment is precious.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.