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The more you try to control something, the more it controls you.
Unknown
The only true freedom we have is the power of our own mind.
Unknown
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
Dan Millman
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
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
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray
The more you know yourself, the less you rely on others to tell you who you are.
Kristen Butler
Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson
The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.
Susan Jeffers
The past has no power over the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Emma Bombeck
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace.
Randy Armstrong
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
The mind is like water. When it's turbulent, it's difficult to see. When it's calm, everything becomes clear.
Prasad Mahes
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Jordan Belfort
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The more you practice mindfulness, the more you will understand and appreciate the simple things in life.
Amit Ray
Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
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
Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
Sylvia Boorstein
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche
The mind and body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one.
Deepak Chopra
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin
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.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.
David Kekich
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
Sharon Salzberg
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tara Brach
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard
The future is always uncertain, but the present moment is a gift that we can learn to appreciate.
Pema Chödrön
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a powerful antidote to anxiety. It shifts your focus from what your mind is telling you to what is actually happening in the present moment.
Unknown
Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Mindfulness practice is simple and completely feasible, says Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Just by sitting and doing nothing, we are doing a tremendous amount.
Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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