Quotes about Mindfulness
Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.
— John Perkins
Make each day your masterpiece.
— John Wooden
Make each day a masterpiece.
— John Wooden
John Wooden focused almost entirely on improvement in the present moment. He let the score—winning—take care of itself. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
— John Wooden
If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.
— John Wooden
Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.
— John Wooden
How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.
— John Wooden
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
— Khalil Gibran
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
— Pema Chodron
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
— Epictetus
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
— Pema Chodron
It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
— Ann Voskamp