Mindfulness Quotes

"Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching"

- Ferguson Jenkins

"Slow down and smile."

- Carla White

"One can only forget about time by making use of it."

- Charles Baudelaire

"An anxious mind is an unproductive mind that doesn’t inspire the best in others. A top priority for mindful leaders is cultivating peace of mind."

- Matt Tenney

"Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes, which it will."

- James Baraz

"Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being."

- Peter Diamandis

"Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it."

- Steve Maraboli

"Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you– in your body, heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment."

- Jan Chozen Bays

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else. That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

- Michael Ende

"Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom."

- Bhante H. Gunaratana

"How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience, and therefore, the quality of our lives."

- Sam Harris

"If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever."

- Dalai Lama

"Best advice ever received was from one of my meditation teachers at the monastery: ‘Be present, be patient, be gentle, be kind…everything else will take care of itself.’"

- Andy Puddicombe

"When you're quiet, everything settles on the floor of your mind like sediment in undisturbed still water."

- Megan Monahan

"Breathe in the good shit. Breathe out the bullshit."

- Karen Salmansohn

"In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent, to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise, and to reclaim our sanity and humanity by coming home to ourselves."

- Sumi Loundon Kim

"In today’s rush, we all think too much - seek too much - want too much - and forget about the joy of just being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The key to happiness – or that even more desired thing, calmness – lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person."

- Matt Haig

""A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.""

"Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen."

"Find your center and stay there."

"Sometimes the best solution is to just release what you cannot control."