1. Inner emptiness is not a void to be filled with comforts; it is a window to be looked through.

- Alan Watts

2. Becoming awake involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

- Rumi

3. He said, ‘There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly live.

- Dalai Lama

4. Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.

- Amit Ray

5. The first and best victory is to conquer self.

- Plato

6. Mindfulness meditation helps you tackle every little problem one by one with equanimity and presence rather than worry about 100 problems all at once and never do anything about anything.

- Scott Barry Kaufman

7. If you listen completely, entirely, wholly, at the actual moment of listening there is no confusion, and that moment is enough.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

8. When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

9. When the mind is completely aware it becomes extraordinarily silent, quiet; it is not asleep, but highly awake in that silence.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

10. You can’t be mindful when your mind’s full.

- Jack Butcher

11. Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

- Sharon Salzberg

12. Mindfulness is clarity. Clarity of thought. Clarity of intent. Clarity of action. When you possess this level of clarity you are able to be in control of most levels of your life. And being in control is one of the most powerful feelings one can experience.

- Adrian Lliopoulos

13. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

- Swami Muktananda

14. 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

15. Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words, and actions.

- Amit Ray

16. Be happy in the moment, that’s enough, each moment is all we need, not more.

- Mother Teresa

17. The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

- Eckhart Tolle

18. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.

- Frank Zappa

19. Always hold fast to the present. Every situation, indeed every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20. No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.

- Osho

21. Is it possible for the mind each day to be so totally aware that problems no longer exist?

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

22. With awareness, we can make concious choices, instead of letting our habitual thoughts and patterns run the show.

- Tamara Levitt

23. With mindfulness we can see the poetry and beauty all around us. We can see the miracles of life.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

24. Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.

- Arnaud Desjardins

25. Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

- Eckhart Tolle

26. Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

27. Everything is created twice. First in the mind and then in reality.

- Robin Sharma

28. As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

- Buddha

29. If we want to become mindful, rather than just knowing about mindfulness, we need to establish our own regular practice.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

30. Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.

- Sylvia Boorstein

31. Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.

- J. Mark G. Williams

32. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

33. Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

- Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

34. Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you– in your body, heart, and mind.

- Jan Chozen Bays

35. Your life should be a continuous death and a continuous resurrection, so that you remain fresh to the very last breath.

- Osho

36. When you focus on what works for you and what doesn’t, you step out of that comparison cycle and spiral into your real, beautiful life.

- Robyn Conley Downs

37. Always mind your surroundings.

- Liam Neeson, Batman Begins

38. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

39. A serious mind can never be in the present. Only a playful mind, only children, are in the present. So be more childlike… play more.

- Osho

40. This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.

- Alan Watts

41. Imagine witnessing every situation, person, and thing just as it is.

- Byron Katie

42. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

- Buddha

43. Observe the space between your thoughts, then observe the observer.

- Hamilton Boudreaux

44. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

- Amit Ray

45. As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

- Ayya Khema

46. Training your mind to be the present moment is the number one key to making healthier choices.

- Susan Albers

47. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

- Rumi

48. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is happening; it’s about what is really going on.

- Nell Newman

49. Pause practice creates an open doorway to the sacredness of the place in which you find yourself.

- Pema Chodron?

50. 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.

- Richard Gere

51. Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.

- Tara Brach

52. The body and mind are interdependent. They are inseparable in the art of introspection.

- Geeta Iyengar

53. 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

54. When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

- Michel de Montaigne

55. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

- Tara Brach

56. Right mindfulness is not a tool or an instrument, but a path.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

57. Things that have a consciousness are higher than those that don’t.

- Marcus Aurelius

58. A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. ?It just blooms.

- Zen Shin

59. 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

60. It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

- Bruce Lee, Enter The Dragon

61. In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

62. If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.

- Ivan Nuru

63. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience, and therefore, the quality of our lives.

- Sam Harris

64. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

- Marcus Aurelius

65. Just because our eyes are open does not mean we are awake.

- Haemin Sunim

66. Only those who have cultivated the art of living completely in the present have any use for making plans for the future. For when the plans mature they will be able to enjoy the results.

- Alan Watts

67. Mindfulness is the kind of light that shows us the way. It is the living Buddha inside of each of us. Mindfulness gives birth to insight, awakening, compassion, and love.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

68. The first important step into the now is to become aware of whatever surrounds you.

- Eckhart Tolle

69. There is a great beauty in observation, in seeing things as they are.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

70. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand melting like a snowflake.

- Francis Bacon

71. The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

72. When you learn to just sit and become completely present, you naturally become completely quiet, with none of that jazz going on inside. A person who can’t really sit as if there were nothing else to do also won’t be able to act because he’ll never be completely all here.

- Alan Watts

73. Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

74. The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

- Joey Green

75. Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

- Hermann Hesse

76. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

- Mark Williams, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for

77. Every day has its drama. If you are waiting for a day without drama, you are waiting for death. Mindfulness is what gives us the space to meet all drama without tension. While we can’t always be free of drama, we can be free from the effects of it. It’s called peace of mind.

- Thibaut

78. Now is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

- Osho

79. When you breathe in mindfully, there is a happy reunion between body and mind. This doesn’t take any fancy technique.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

80. Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.

- Joseph Goldstein

81. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

82. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

- Carl Jung

83. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

- Socrates

84. You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind until it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper in it.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

85. Observing not absorbing.

- Maryam Hasnaa

86. Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

- Rumi

87. Paradise is not a place; it’s a state of consciousness.

- Sri Chinmoy

88. 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

89. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you’re doing.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

90. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

- William Blake

91. Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn