Attention Quote by Ellen DeGeneres

On my hike my brain was left to wander. That was often maddening because it was tedious and monotonous sometimes, but then my the…

— Cheryl Strayed

I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God… I just make it my business to…

— Brother Lawrence

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and…

— Melody Beattie

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about…

— Tara Brach

It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling…

— Anonymous

Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I…

— Daphne Merkin

When I was doing those things with the Berlin circus, playing the accordion, going to North Korea - I felt all those things were…

— Mauro Remiddi

I made a note in my head to be aware of things as they were happening, because they might not happen again. Up to…

— James Vincent McMorrow

The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten…

— Mary Wells Lawrence

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we…

— Isak Dinesen

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything…

— Patti LaBelle