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MINDFULNESS QUOTES

MINDFULNESS QUOTES

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

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


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

“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


“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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


“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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


“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
― C.G. Jung

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“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


“I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”
― Marilynne Robinson

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson


“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin

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


“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons

“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön


“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
― Henry James

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

“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

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

“Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.”
― Deepak Chopra

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

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

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

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
― Línjì Yìxuán

“Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.”
― Amit Ray

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

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
― Sharon Salzberg

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

“Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Mindful leadership keeps you cool and energetic in any situation, so that you can make the best possible decisions.”
― Amit Ray

“We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
― Lawrence Binyon

“Happiness is not constant; it is cyclical. Happiness is broad and resilient, and the happiest people still experience negative feelings.”
― Robert Gill Jr

“Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset drives our evolution faster and on right tracks.”
― Amit Ray

“My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.”
― Mary Doria Russell

“All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others”
― Sharon Salzberg

“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
― Sharon Salzberg

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

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.”
― Sheri S. Tepper

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

“We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.”
― Jules Verne

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

“Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.”
― Allan Lokos


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SELF AWARENESS QUOTES [BLOG#23]


“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung


“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult


“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski


“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.”
― Suzanne Collins


“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
― Marcus Aurelius


“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah


“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”
― Dolly Parton



“You’ve always been what you are. That’s not new. What you’ll get used to is knowing it.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
― Janis Joplin


“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo


“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― Rumi

“You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
― John Lennon


“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana


“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer


“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
― David Sedaris

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
― Socrates


“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” -Socrates”
― Socrates


“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.”
― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz


“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.”
― Amit Ray


“It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions…And you come to remember your true authentic self.”
― Wendy E. Slater

“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.”
― Albert Camus


“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Amit Ray

“It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
― Aisha Mirza


“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott


“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray

“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
― Samuel Beckett


“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”
― Douglas Adams

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
― Cheryl Strayed

“Purpose gives perspective to your pain and powers you through it. Without it, your pain can paralyze you.”
― Gregory Dickow


“One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.”
― Rollo May

“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
― Thomas Merton


“When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes

“How shall I ever learn who I am when there is so much of me that belongs to someone else?”
― Madeline Claire Franklin


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SELFESTEEM QUOTES [BLOG #5]

SELFESTEEM QUOTES

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson



“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein


“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain


“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult,


“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne


“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung


“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox


“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
― Ayn Rand,



“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass


“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!”
― Rick Riordan

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson


“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale


“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson


“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― Naomi Wolf,

“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.”
― Steve Maraboli



“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
― Shannon Alder

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff


“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder


“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
― Henry Ford


“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide


“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James


“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.”
― Paul Monette

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown


“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
― Brigham Young

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― Naomi Wolf, 


“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen

“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter.”
― Daniel Radcliffe

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