Mindfulness Quotes

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

It is a great art to saunter !

You're picky about the car you drive. You're picky about what you wear. You're picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.

Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

Wherever You Are, Be ThereOne of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

Every step I take is a blessing.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Look at thingsand listenand feel.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy presentthoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

Do not look back,No one knows how the world ever began.Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.If you dwell on the past or future,You will miss the moment.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.