Mindfulness Quotes

"Quiet the mind and the soul will speak."

- Buddha

"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?"

- Buddha

"Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think."

- Buddha

"Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance."

- Deepak Chopra

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure."

- Tommy Lasorda

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life."

- Wade Boggs

"Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."

- Annie Dillard

"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall."

- Sheng-yen

"With meditation, I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts."

- Mary Pipher

"The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it’s so great, because for a little bit I’m out of my brain, and it’s got nothing to do with me."

- Chris Evans

"As we change our mind, we change our body at the cellular level."

- David R. Hamilton

"You can either choose to let that pain dictate the last five miles of the race, or you can decide to lean into it and appreciate that you are lucky enough to push your body this hard. You need to re-wire your brain to believe that this is how you’re supposed to feel, and keep running your hardest in spite of it."

- Veronica Graziano

"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming."

- Frank Shorter

"I don’t think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don’t think about the mile I’m on right now, I don’t think about the miles I’ve already covered. I think about what I’m doing right now, just being lost in the moment."

- Ryan Hall

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running."

- Haruki Murakami

"Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox."

- Buddha

"Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen."

- Buddha

"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings."

- Dalai Lama

"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Take a few deep breaths; visualize a better tomorrow with each exhale."

"Unclench your jaw. Loosen your shoulders. Close your eyes. Inhale, exhale."

"Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go."

"Jump in and lose yourself."

"When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love."

"Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment."

"From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth."

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."