60 mindfulness quotes to inspire you

 
Mindfulness quotes are nice to read if you're someone who practice mindfulness or maybe your someone who wants to practices mindfulness. Living mindfully is so beneficial, it helps improve your health mentally and physically. 


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Here are 60 mindfulness quotes that will teach you about mindfulness and inspire you to live mindfully especially on those days that you don't feel like practicing mindfulness.





“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”  – Mother Teresa



 “The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.”  – Joey Green


“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.”  – Allan Lokos
  

“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; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”  –Thich Nhat Hanh


“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn


 
“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn


“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn

   
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn


“Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn



“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn


“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.”  – Jon Kabat-Zinn


“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”  – Chuang



“In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.”  – Jack Kornfield



 
“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); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”  – James Baraz



“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.”  – Allan Lokos




   

 
“Essentially, meditation allows us to live in ways that are less automatic. This necessarily means less time spent worrying, ruminating, and trying to control things we can’t control. It means we become less vulnerable to the throes of the fear-driven, older parts of our brains, and freer to use our newer and more sophisticated mental abilities: patience, compassion, acceptance and reason.”  – David Cain


“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”  – Amit Ray


 
“Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.”  – Susan Albers

 
“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”  – Louis L’Amour



 
“Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space.”  – Ravi Ravindra


“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favorable.”  – Matthieu Ricard

 
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”  – Jalaluddin Rumi

 
“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

 
“Mindful eating is about awareness. When you eat mindfully, you slow down, pay attention to the food you’re eating, and savor every bite.”  – Susan Albers


“Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.”  – Sharon Salzberg


“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”  – Thich Nhat Hanh


“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; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”  –Thich Nhat Hanh


“I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.”  – Tobe Hanson


“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”  – Eckhart Tolle





“In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.”  – Victoria Moran
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” 
 – Jack Kornfield


“The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favorable.”  – Matthieu Ricard

 


 
“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


“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”  – Jack Kornfield


“Mindful eating is about awareness. When you eat mindfully, you slow down, pay attention to the food you’re eating, and savor every bite.”  – Susan Albers


“Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”  – Mark Williams


“Wherever you are, be there totally.”  – Eckhart Tolle


“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.”  – Sharon Salzberg


“Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions.”  – Matthieu Ricard


“Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”  – Evita Ochel


“We cannot force the development of mindfulness.”  – Allan Lokos


“Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.”  – Allan Lokos


“Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.”  – Jack Kornfield


“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”  – Buddha



 
“Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.”  – Buddha


“If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”  – Buddha



“Our life is shaped by our mind, for we become what we think.”  – Buddha

 
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”  – Buddha

 
“Nothing is forever except change.”  – Buddha

 
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”  – Buddha


“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


“Now is the future that you promised yourself last year, last month, last week. Now is the only moment you’ll ever really have. Mindfulness is about waking up to this.”  – Mark Williams

 
“If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion.”  – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche


“What would it be like if I could accept life – accept this moment – exactly as it is?”  – Tara Brach

“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); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”  – James Baraz


“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”  – Amit Ray

 
“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”  – Amit Ray



“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”  – Seneca


“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”  – Sylvia Boorstein



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