Mindfulness Quotes
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant;they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble,
it’s a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals,and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
-Attributed to – Max Ehrmann (1872 – 1945)
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
-Dr. Seuss
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-Aristotle
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Bible, 1 John iv. 18.
Behold, now is the accepted time,
Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Bible, Hebrews xiii. 2.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, John 8:32
Judge not according to the appearance.
Bible, John vii.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Bible, Proverbs 23:7
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Bible, Psalm cxxxiii. 1.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Bible, Romans xiii. 10.
“If our hearts are closed, if our hearts are made of stone, the stones find their way into our hands and we are ready to throw them.”
“One thing is certain: we can no longer turn our backs on reality, on our brothers and sisters, on Mother Earth,”
“We are also invited to care for it (the planet), to protect it, to be its guardians. Nowadays we are increasingly aware of how important this is. It is no longer a mere recommendation, but rather a requirement …”
“The goods of the earth are meant for everyone, and however much someone may parade his property, it has a social mortgage… In this way we move beyond purely economic justice, based on commerce, towards social justice, which upholds the fundamental human right to a dignified life.”
― Pope Francis
“Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. ”
Psalm 4:4
“Love is the law, the law under will.”
-Aleister Crowley
Honor the sacred.
Honor the Earth, our Mother.
Honor the Elders.
Honor all with whom we
share the Earth:-
Four-leggeds, two-leggeds,
winged ones,
Swimmers, crawlers,
plant and rock people.
Walk in balance and beauty.
– Native American Elder
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait
Ponca Chief White Eagle (1800’s to 1914)
When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
-White Elk
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness, with the universe and all its powers,
– Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader (1863 – 1950)
When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
– Cree Prophecy
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.
– passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.”
-Koran
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.”
― al-Hasan al-Basri
“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”
-Swami Vivekananda
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
-Ayn Rand
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friend.
-The Beatles
“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
"Silence is sometimes the best answer”
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
“The more you are motivated by Love,
The more Fearless & Free your action will be.”
“When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”
“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
“I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.”
- Dalai Lama
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, — that we find we have (a common Nature) — one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about…things that are past, it is needless to blame.
-Confucius – Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
-Albert Einstein
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier; nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farm boy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent.
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
- Herman Hesse
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
-Lao-Tzu (604 BC – 531 BC)
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
-Socrates
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Time eases all things.
-Sophocles
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
-Plato
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
-Carl Jung
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-Steve Jobs
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon