Mindfulness Quotes

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. (Nhat Hanh)
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes. View quote
Nhat Hanh
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. View quote
Nhat Hanh
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. View quote
Ron Reagan
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful." View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us. View quote
Nyanaponika Thera
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one's listening. I think it's just a habit of mindfulness. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention. View quote
Dustin Moskovitz
Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think its about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on. View quote
Krista Tippett
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion. View quote
Noah Levine
Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments. View quote
Amit Ray
World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. View quote
Amit Ray
Starting out as a dancer gave me an aspect of mindfulness that I didn't even realise that I was getting...because to dance is to be aware of every piece of your body while you're moving. It's like a meditation unto itself. View quote
Goldie Hawn
Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred. View quote
Nhat Hanh
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. View quote
Nhat Hanh
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. (Daniel Goleman)
You were invigorated by mindfulness of God, migration from oneself to God-which is the greatest migration-migration from ego to the truth, and from this world to the unseen world. View quote
Ruhollah Khomeini
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not. View quote
Richard Gere
My country has been influenced by the core Buddhist values of non-violence, loving kindness, compassion, equanimity and mindfulness. With this sense of direction, our Government has committed itself "Towards a new Sri Lanka", guided by a vision of peace, where every Sri Lankan citizen may live with dignity and self-respect, in freedom and without fear, free of want, and where every child may enjoy childhood and grow up with hope and expectation. View quote
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana