10 Mindful Quotes To Remember
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10 Mindful Quotes To Remember

Daily reminders to live in the present moment.

Olivia Desilets
Apr 23, 2018
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Every morning I make it part of my routine to read a quote from a book of mindfulness practices. It has helped focus my thoughts on the present moment more clearly, and to remember that all we have is right now. I know some quotes may sound corny and repetitive about being to be told to “live in the present moment”, but it is a very important thing to do, and can take a lot of practice. So, I have compiled a list of my favorite quotes I have read so far into a list that will hopefully help you become more mindful too!

1. “Respond; don’t react. Listen; don’t talk. Think; don’t assume.” -Raji Lukkoor

2. “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is being open to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”- Sylvia Boorstein

3. “I change my life when I change my thinking. I am Light. I am Spirit. I am a wonderful, capable being. And it is time for me to acknowledge that I create my own reality with my thoughts. If I was to change my reality, then it is time for me to change my mind.”- Louise Hay

4. “Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.”- Allan Lokos

5. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry, we shall get there some day.”- A.A. Milne

6. “I deserve the best and I accept the best now.”- Louise Hay

7. “It is not what you look at that matters, its what you see.”- Henry David Thoreau

8. "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Leave your front and back door open. Let your thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.”- Shunryū Suzuki

10. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”- Buddha

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