Mindfulness Quotes
430 Mindfulness quotes by 172 unique authors
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
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Wherever you are - be all there.
— Jim Elliot
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
— Edna Ferber
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When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you;…
— Nhat Hanh
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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.
— Nhat Hanh
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Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.
— Nhat Hanh
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If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the…
— Nhat Hanh
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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…
— Nhat Hanh
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Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you…
— Nhat Hanh
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We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want…
— Nhat Hanh
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment…
— William James
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Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
— Corita Kent
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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I…
— Annie Lennox
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
— Orison Swett Marden
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
— Michel de Montaigne
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
— Mary Oliver
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I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
— Ron Reagan
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad…
— Andy Rooney
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We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Each moment is a place you've never been.
— Mark Strand
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There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true…
— Howard Thurman
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
— Alan Watts
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Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your…
— Howard Rheingold
Who Wrote These Mindfulness Quotes
172 authors contributed a total of 430 Mindfulness Quotes, led by these top contributors: