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The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.


- Mother Teresa

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.


- Louis L'Amour

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something different and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.


- Adyashanti

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.


- Carl Jung

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.


- Sharon Salzberg

Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life.


- Marcus Aurelius

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another.


- Jack Kornfield

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.


- Pema Chödrön

Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.


- Allan Lokos

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.


- Allan Lokos

Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.


- The Buddha

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.


- Rumi

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.


- Allen Lokos

Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.


- Sonia Ricotti

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

With meditation, you begin to relax in your seat and just watch the movie of life.


- Ken Wilber

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.


- Shunryu Suzuki

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.


- Mingyur Rinpoche

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.


- The Buddha

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.


- Ramana Maharshi

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.


- Tara Brach

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.


- Jack Kornfield

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

Reality is only an agreement - today is always today.


- Zen Proverb

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.


- Huang Po

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.


- Amit Ray

Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.


- The Buddha

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes.


- Marcel Proust

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.


- Jack Kornfield

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 36

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.


- Jack Kornfield

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 37

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.


- Joseph Goldstein

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 38

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.


- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.


- The Buddha

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

The older you get, the more ‘mindfulness’ becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.


- Victoria Coren Mitchell

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.


- Alan Watts

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.


- Jan Chozen Bays

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.


- Mark Williams

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.


- Henry Miller

The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.


- Idowu Koyenikan

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

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

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.


- Jack Kornfield

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.


- Pema Chödrön

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.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.


- Henepola Gunaratana

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.


- Pema Chödrön

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.


- Chögyam Trungpa

You cannot control the results, only your actions.


- Allan Lokos

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.


- Joseph Goldstein

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

Few of us ever life in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.


- Louis L'Amour

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.


- Rupert Spira

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.


- Arnaud Desjardins

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


- Chuang

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


- Tara Brach

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.


- Amit Ray

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.


- Amit Ray

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


- The Buddha

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.


- The Buddha

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.


- The Buddha

The stiller you are the calmer life is.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.


- Tara Brach

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.


- Susan Albers

When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.


- Shunryu Suzuki

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.


- Ramana Maharshi

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.


- Carl Jung

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open…quiet mind.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.


- Tara Brach

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.


- Ayya Khema

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 83

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 85

The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.


- Mother Teresa

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.


- Louis L'Amour

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something different and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.


- Adyashanti

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.


- Carl Jung

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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

Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.


- Sharon Salzberg

Do every act of your life as though it were the last act of your life.


- Marcus Aurelius

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another.


- Jack Kornfield

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.


- Pema Chödrön

Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that – thoughts.


- Allan Lokos

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.


- Allan Lokos

Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.


- The Buddha

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.


- Rumi

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.


- Allen Lokos

Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.


- Sonia Ricotti

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

With meditation, you begin to relax in your seat and just watch the movie of life.


- Ken Wilber

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.


- Shunryu Suzuki

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.


- Thich Nhat Hanh

Use every distraction as an object of meditation and they cease to be distractions.


- Mingyur Rinpoche

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.


- The Buddha

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.


- Ramana Maharshi

As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.


- Tara Brach

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.


- Jack Kornfield

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

Reality is only an agreement - today is always today.


- Zen Proverb

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.


- Huang Po

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.


- Amit Ray

Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.


- The Buddha

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes.


- Marcel Proust

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.


- Jack Kornfield

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 36

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.


- Jack Kornfield

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 37

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.


- Joseph Goldstein

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 38

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.


- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.


- The Buddha

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

The older you get, the more ‘mindfulness’ becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.


- Victoria Coren Mitchell

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.


- Alan Watts

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.


- Jan Chozen Bays

Pure awareness transcends thinking. It allows you to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.


- Mark Williams

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.


- Henry Miller

The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.


- Idowu Koyenikan

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

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

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.


- Jack Kornfield

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.


- Pema Chödrön

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.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Each step along the Buddha’s path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.


- Henepola Gunaratana

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.


- Pema Chödrön

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.


- Chögyam Trungpa

You cannot control the results, only your actions.


- Allan Lokos

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

The greatest communication is usually how we are rather than what we say.


- Joseph Goldstein

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

Few of us ever life in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.


- Louis L'Amour

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.


- Rupert Spira

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.


- Arnaud Desjardins

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


- Chuang

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


- Tara Brach

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.


- Amit Ray

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.


- Amit Ray

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


- The Buddha

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.


- The Buddha

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.


- The Buddha

The stiller you are the calmer life is.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.


- Tara Brach

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.


- Susan Albers

When you bow, you should just bow; when you sit, you should just sit; when you eat, you should just eat.


- Shunryu Suzuki

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.


- Ramana Maharshi

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.


- Carl Jung

A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open…quiet mind.


- Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.


- Tara Brach

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. Doing science is spiritual. So is washing the dishes.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.


- Ayya Khema

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.


- Thích Nhất Hạnh

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 83

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.


- Jon Kabat-Zinn

85 Mindfulness Quotes for motivation and inspiration towards a successful life - Quote 85