Mindfulness Burnout Prevention Quotes

#1. The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Mark Twain

#2. It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual 'magic' causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.

Christopher Dines

#3. Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Taking a new step ... is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#5. She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.

R.L. Stine

#6. It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. Understanding that which is foreign to you is fundamental to cultivating a sense of connection and unity with one another. We are ultimately trying to accomplish the same thing, which is survival and the thriving of a better world.

Adrian Grenier

#8. I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

Norman Mailer

#9. Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.

Eugene Cernan

#10. Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Eleanor Clark

#11. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.

Christopher Dines

#12. Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.

Soman Chainani

#13. I have to go, I'm being asked to join a conga line through the Byzantine reliquaries.

Christopher Fowler

#14. War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.

Graeme Smith

#15. When life throws difficulties at us and the mind is restless, emotional resilience will see us through challenging times. We can work through tempestuous emotions and self-doubt and come through them unharmed and avoid self-sabotage and self-harm.

Christopher Dines

#16. 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

#17. Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

Bud Grant

#18. Through practising body scan awareness meditation, we can greatly reduce the detrimental effects of stress and make our working lives pleasant and enjoyable.

Christopher Dines

#19. Things sometimes go our way and sometimes they don't. All we can do is apply ourselves to our profession, giving our very best effort but emotionally letting go of the outcome. Why? Because if we obsess about an outcome, we cannot possibly honour the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#20. The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy by natural disasters, like Katrina, through neglected climate protection.

Jurgen Trittin