Top 100 Self Mindfulness Quotes
#2. It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all.
Nikki Rowe
#3. Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them.
Sharon Salzberg
#4. The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
Kelly McGonigal
#6. Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety - and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.
Kelly G. Wilson
#8. Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.
Evita Ochel
#9. Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
Diane Ackerman
#10. The path to healthy body, and happy soul is based upon self-study, mindfulness, love and awareness.
Understanding our relationship to eating cultivates a lot of insights and help us start living our highest potential.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#11. The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#12. Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#13. If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.
Ethan Nichtern
#14. With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.
Sharon Salzberg
#15. Healing ultimately comes down to whether or not you have made the decision to do so.
Gary Hopkins
#16. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.
Roger Housden
#17. Not Eve:
Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.
T.F. Hodge
#18. The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
#19. Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self.
Abhijit Naskar
#20. Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.
Vironika Tugaleva
#21. Watch your thoughts, for they will become the words of people you draw to yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#22. When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one's self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.
Ron Baratono
#24. Mindfulness can be summed up in seven words:
Deliberate Focused Attention In The Present Moment.
- Denis J
Denis John George
#25. As you notice your whole being, your entirety, your wise inner nature, there are messages there for you. Quietly give permission for your wholeness, your entirety, to share its deepest wisdom.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#27. The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.
Sharon Salzberg
#28. It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#29. Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person's life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#30. It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.
Alaric Hutchinson
#31. As with any form of mental self-improvement, you must learn to turn your gaze inward, concentrate on processes that usually run automatically, and try to wrest control of them so that you can apply them more mindfully.
Steven Pinker
#32. Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.
Lama Surya Das
#34. Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
Sharon Salzberg
#37. So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates.
Allan Lokos
#38. I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
Charlotte Eriksson
#39. I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#40. A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.
Sharon Salzberg
#42. On the topic of exercise, It's just as important as brushing your teeth everyday, more important than watching TV or reading online or answering email. Make time for something so crucial to a good life.
Leo Babauta
#43. I am more able to recognize when my mind has gotten itself into trouble and increasingly eager to mobilize the energy to rescue it. Concentration and mindfulness, as remedies to confusion, are either self-activating ... or at least reasonably available remedies to confusion. [pp. 17-18]
Sylvia Boorstein
#45. First, people were not thinking about what they were doing 47 per cent of the time. Second, people were unhappier when their minds were wandering than they were not. And third, what people were thinking was a better predictor of their happiness than what they were doing.
David Michie
#46. If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.
Shya Kane
#47. When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences - good and bad alike - are opportunities to learn and grow.
Sharon Salzberg
#48. Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.
Kaiden Blake
#49. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#51. Emotions are not problems to be solved. They are signals to be interpreted.
Vironika Tugaleva
#52. To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
Allan Lokos
#53. Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#54. Cultivation of positive emotions, including self-love and self-respect, strengthens our inner resources and opens us to a broader range of thoughts and actions.
Sharon Salzberg
#55. Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can't imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#56. With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#57. The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
Gabor Mate
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.
from Chapter 4
Mare Chapman
#61. Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism - a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.
Sharon Salzberg
#62. If you love too much, you lose yourself.
If you love too little, you never find yourself.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#63. The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.
Idowu Koyenikan
#64. In my mind persistence meets with wisdom, reminding me of the substance in self awareness and mindfulness.
Celeste Cooper
#65. Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the nature.
Amit Ray
#66. There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
Stefan Molyneux
#67. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.
Debra Moffitt
#68. Avoid having to pump your brakes by keeping your flow on cruise control.
T.F. Hodge
#69. By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
Eknath Easwaran
#70. The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
Stefan Molyneux
#71. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#72. Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#73. Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do great things, to pioneer change by way of your own personal uniqueness, and to express yourself and share your happiness with others.
Kaiden Blake
#74. Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#75. The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.
Sang H. Kim
#76. Replace fear of your own inner experience with a curious, gentle, welcoming attitude - free of judgment, self-blame, and aversion.
Melanie Greenberg
#77. Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#78. Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#79. 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
#80. Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.
Sharon Salzberg
#81. Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
Vironika Tugaleva
#82. Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day. Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind, so always keep what you are thinking about in check.
Miya Yamanouchi
#83. By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.
Rajeev Kurapati
#84. Compassion is a fundamental principle of meditation. Meditation is not a narcissistic, self-interested path. It provides the foundation for love, integrity, compassion, respect and sensitivity (Feldman, 1998, p.2).
Christina Feldman
#86. There is a lot of work ahead of us, as we endeavor to rescue the planet from ourselves, and we are likely to be at this work for a very long time. Perhaps we could come at it from the wisdom of the non-self perspective, rather than the passions of the "world is mine" point of view.
Andrew Olendzki
#87. Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door
Matt Broadway-Horner
#88. Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
Sharon Salzberg
#89. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#91. Our enemy within are our Core Negative Beliefs. Negative beliefs hide from the Consciousness and they get exposed by the Magic of Mindfulness and Awareness. Explore Your Core Beliefs, Challenge Existing, Train Mindfulness, Understand Beauty, Work with Emptiness, Meditate
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#92. Somewhere, within our brain, we have a potential for higher mathematics, complex physics, art, & amazing richness of thoughts, feelings & sensations Somewhere within our brain we have a potential to understand the Magic of Creative Thinking
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#93. If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.
Gary Hopkins
#94. I believe that there is only one kind of love - real love - trying to come alive in us despite our limiting assumptions, the distortions of our culture, and the habits of fear, self-condemnation, and isolation that we tend to acquire just by living a life.
Sharon Salzberg
#95. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chodron
#97. Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own.
T.F. Hodge
#98. Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
Frederick Lenz
#100. There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
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