Mindfulness Quotes

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."

- Betty Smith

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"In this world, all — men, women, and kings — must live for the present."

- Alexandre Dumas

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed."

- Mattie Stepanek

"There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments."

- C.S. Lewis

"There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in."

- Virginia Woolf

"If you live in the past, that’s depression, and if you live in the future, that’s anxiety. So you have no choice but to live in the present."

- Sarah Silverman

"You can learn so much from animals. They have this wonderful quality of being in the moment, and they help you spend time there."

- Emmylou Harris

"Breath. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Living in the moment, it’s a gift. That’s why they call it the present."

- Ted Lasso

"Stop looking for the answer and let the answer come to you."

- Sam's Dad

"I would like to see a tulip. [...] Just one tulip. An entire field will be incredibly overwhelming."

- Dani

"You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. You know why? Got a ten-second memory. Be a goldfish, Sam."

- Ted

"I live in the moment. The moment is the most important thing. That’s my entire philosophy: Make the best of the good moments."

- Rita Moreno

"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."

- Raul Julia

"Let the sunset dictate your mindset."

- Paige Drummond

"Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind."

- Mary Ellen Chase

"It’s all mind over matter, If I don’t mind, then it doesn’t matter."

- Navy SEALs

"It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment."

- Sara Sheridan

"Adulting is simpler if you live moment to moment."

- Parents

"You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind."

- Emmet Fox

"My dear friend, clear your mind of cant."

- Samuel Johnson

"We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.”"

- Katherine J. Walden

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have Only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"An ocean breeze puts a mind at ease."

"Breathe in. Beach out."

"Attitude changes things."

"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, But Today is a Gift – That’s Why It’s called “The Present”"