Quotes on Mindfulness

Here are my favourite 100 quotes on mindfulness to inspire you daily. Let me know what’s your favourite in the comments below is. Anyway enough of me rambling on here are the mindfulness quotes of over 100. If you have know of quote or just would like to make one up then please leave it in the comments.

“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

“You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.”
Nikki Rowe

“What is in the past is in the past, however you can change what is now”
Toni Mont

“Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your preconceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion.”
Alaric Hutchinson

“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
Allan Lokos

“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
Orna Ross

“One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.”
Allan Lokos

“Mindfulness helps you understand that the past is gone, can’t be changed and all the lessons are already learned.”
Lidiya K.

“Even just taking 20 seconds to truly appreciate your surroundings makes a world of difference.”
Russell Eric Dobda

“Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your pre-conceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion.”
Alaric Hutchinson

“Patience has all the time it needs.”
Allan Lokos

“This isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.”
Victoria Moran

“Remember the future is the future it is not set, you can only change the present”
Toni Mont

“Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we’re open to rich sources of information we’ve been missing out on—information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.”
Mark Wilf

“The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.”
Sharon Salzberg

“Work towards a future yes, however remember what you do now helps to manifest it”
Toni Mont

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

“Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn’t really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.”
Deepak Chopra,

“Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.”
Amit Ray

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

“True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.”
Tsoknyi Rinpoche,

“Compassion is born out of loving kindness.
It is born of knowing our oneness, not just thinking about it or wishing it were so. It is born out of the wisdom of seeing things exactly as they are.”
Sharon Salzberg

“Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.”
Doug Dillon

“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

“Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot cannot change what we are not aware of.”
Jose Incer

“If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.”
Sharon Salzberg

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

“In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature. We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: ‘I love looking at this birch’ becomes ‘I am this birch’ and then ‘I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.”
David Richo

“Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.”
Allan Lokos

“Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.”
Sylvia Boorstein

“We must look deep into our soul daily.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

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

“We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one’s self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.”
Ron Baratono

“You have the ability to control your thoughts.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“Simply just BE GRATEFUL what you have today, there is millions who’are crying for the place where you are today”
Rashedur Rahman

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present… gratefully.”
Maya Angelou

“Mindfulness is about understanding cause and effect”
Toni Mont

“Without energy being invested in resisting the unwanted or dueling with fears, we have more energy and attention available for noticing not only the disturbing, but the wonderful…When we are not fixated on threat and defending ourselves, when we’re not exhausted and burned out from chronic stress, we are able to see the daily evidence that we are in the midst of a mind-blowing miracle called Life….Then we will experience breathtaking, heart-rippling moments that counterbalance every trial and tribulation. When we’re fully conscious of the universe’s artistry and generosity, who needs psychodelics or Prozac?”
Charlette Mikulka

“Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.”
Allan Lokos

“Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.”
Manprit Kaur

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it.”
Eric Schmidt

“Respond; don’t react. Listen; don’t talk. Think; don’t assume.”
Raji Lukkoor

“This inability to just do nothing is a direct result of our habit of externalisation. As children we are never taught in schools, or in social settings, to look within ourselves for answers. Whether it is that our answers are found in some sort of religion, or another person, or in something else, we start to make this common practice. We are indecisive in life looking to friends, family, counsellors, teachers, and even strangers for advice. We are never taught or, better yet, shown how to look after our number one relationship in life, which is the relationship with one’s self.”
Evan Sutter

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

“Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.”
Amit Ray

“If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.”
Gary Hopkins

“Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.”
Nikki Rowe

“We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.”
Doug Dillon

“We live in a world where it is completely the norm to worry about what we put in our bodies but worry very little about what we throw in our minds. We think a hamburger is bad but a celebrity gossip magazine is completely harmless. As children you never hear “don’t put that garbage in your mind,”
Evan Sutter

“Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional.”
Alaric Hutchinson

“The human mind and what we’ve achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
Amit Ray

“Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.”
Miya Yamanouchi

“When we teach a child patience we offer them the gift of a dignified life.”
Allan Lokos

“Beautify your breath – beautify your life.”
Amit Ray

“Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
Robin S. Sharma

“You have more power over your mind than you realize. The time to strengthen it is now.”
Aimee Halpin

“It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor.”
Victoria Moran

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

“Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.”
Amit Ray

“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
Amit Ray

“When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.”
Stephen Richards

“Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards the goal.”
Amit Ray

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

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart…”
Pema Chödrön

“You actions are your only true belongings.”
Allan Lokos

“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
Catherynne M. Valente

“Step into the center of the center of the center – right into your Now – and see: how elegant and honest this moment is. Just being yourself, a world to hold your feet, a universe to lift your gaze, a heart beating – constant, in the center of it all.”
Laurie Perez

“Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.”
Evita Ochel

“Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.”
Amit Ray

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?”
Stephen LaBerge

“Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.”
Amit Ray

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
Pema Chödrön

“If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.”
Richard Bach

“Mindfulness is intimacy with all things.”
Jeffrey A. White

“If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.”
Shya Kane

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

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. ”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“You are a miracle. Remind yourself often.”
Charnita Arora

“Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.”
Allan Lokos

“Treat everyone you meet as if they were you.”
Doug Dillon

“Healing ultimately comes down to whether or not you have made the decision to do so.”
Gary Hopkins

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
Allan Lokos

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

“Stop, breathe, look around
and embrace the miracle of each day,
the miracle of life.”
Jeffrey A. White

“Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuvenate. I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, and then I take that joy and peace with me out into the world.”
Holly Mosier

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

“Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.”
Allan Lokos

“Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.”
Amit Ray

“Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisions. Listen to your heart.”
Stacie Hammond

“Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.”
Waylon H. Lewis

“Understand disappointment”
George

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”
A.D. Posey

“First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.”
Christopher Dines

“Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.”
Nyanaponika Thera

“There’s no greater gift than the present.”
Dan Santat

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”
Roy T. Bennett

“This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.”
Chris Matakas

“As the flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.”
Amit Ray

“Study yourself; it should be the first subject you learn and the one you revise each and every day”
Evan Sutter

“Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I’ve lived, not just with my questions.”
Krista Tippett

“My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that…what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.”
Nikki Rowe

“Mindful living is an art. You do not have to be a monk or living in a monastery to practice mindfulness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“To still your mind, first still your tongue.”
Mebs Alibhai

“Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal”
Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“When faced with contrast, take nothing personally and don’t try to defend yourself.”
Alaric Hutchinson

“Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.”
Amit Ray

“Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.”
Natasa Pantovic Nuit

“The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it – and those along your journey – warmly, kindly and mindfully”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Stay present, stay conscious.”
Eckhart Tolle

“You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.”
Germany Kent

“Mindfulness is awareness of everything that is happening in the moment of ‘Now’. Mindfulness is a self-development technique that will change the focus of our mind towards happiness.”
Natasa Pantovic Nuit

“It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Maybe (Taoist story)

A classic ancient story illustrates the importance of equanimity and emotional resilience beautifully. Once upon a time, there was a wise old farmer who had worked on the land for over 40 years. One morning, while walking to his stable, he noticed that his horse had run away. His neighbours came to visit and sympathetically said to the farmer, “Such bad luck”.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied. The following morning, however, the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “Such good luck,” the neighbours exclaimed.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied. The following afternoon, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses and was thrown off, causing him to break his leg. The neighbours came to visit and tried to show sympathy and said to the farmer, “how unfortunate”.

“Maybe,” answered the farmer. The following morning military officials came to the farmer’s village to draft young men into the army to fight in a new war. Observing that the farmer’s son’s leg was broken, they did not draft him into the war.

The neighbours congratulated him on his good luck and the farmer calmly replied, “Maybe”.”
Christopher Dines

“Who cannot make general decisions has no confidence in himself.”
Marie Kondō

“Beauty is light set free.”
A.D. Posey

“Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.”
Alaric

“Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.”
Russell Eric Dobda

“The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“That which is cool is driven by the soul.”
A.D. Posey

“Be bold, speak from your heart.”
Nikki Rowe

“We think consciously yet live life unconsciously!”
Ramana Pemmaraju

“I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.”
Steve Wozniak

“If we obsess about an outcome, we cannot possibly honour the present moment.”
Christopher Dines