mindfulness
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety.”
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
“We never sit anything out.”
“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
“Confine yourself to the present.”
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years.”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.”
“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.”
“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body.”
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”
“What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled.”
“We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.”
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”