Mindfulness Quotes

"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter."

- Satchel Paige

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears."

- Arthur Ashe

"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."

- Yogi Berra

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes, you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"That which you think about, you create. Thoughts are things! And that which you think about, good or bad – you create into your own reality."

- Author Unknown

"If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited. When you think better, you’ll live better."

- Joel Osteen

"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."

- Bruce Lee

"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being 'wholly' and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

- Bruce Lee

"Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."

- Bruce Lee

"The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them."

- Bruce Lee

"Life can lure us into this fantasy. A fantasy of fear. We look around and begin to fear we aren’t good enough for the right here and right now, so we create illusions in our minds of what we still need to be — when all we need to be is present in this moment, at this time."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

"Once you're beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line."

- Todd Williams

"Fast running isn't forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you."

- Desiree Linden

"I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don’t want."

- Darren L. Johnson

"When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on 'stuff'-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

- Darren L. Johnson

"Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower."

- Vera Nazarian

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."

- Sydney J. Harris

"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."

- Will Wright

"Don’t wait for a vacation to enjoy life. Start to enjoy it now, today, wherever you are."

- Debasish Mridha

"Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Your attitude determines your direction."

"Elevate your mindset, and success will follow suit."

"Happy Sunday. Let go of all your worries because you need to empty your mind for the new days to come."

"“The foundation of your wellness journey is presence – quieting the chatter in your head, feeling yourself in the moment and knowing you are okay. Presence leads to clarity, and ultimately, to the joy of being alive. Be present. Let go of yesterday. Put thoughts of tomorrow at bay. You are here. Now. Full of energy. Flooded with calm. Engaged in this one and only moment.”"

"This Sunday, trade your to-do list for a to-be list: Be kind, be calm, be present."

- Unknown

"Sunday is a day to be present, to live in the moment, and to fully embrace the beauty of now."