Top 200 Mindfulness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

— Alan Watts

52. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

53. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “Wherever you are, be there totally.”

— Eckhart Tolle

55. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

56. “Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.”

— Nhat Hanh

57. “Your greatness is here and now. Your happiness is here and now.”

— Napoleon Hill

58. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

59. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

— Mary Oliver

61. “Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

— Brené Brown

62. “Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.”

— Tony Horton

63. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra

64. “Smile, breathe, go slowly.”

— Nhat Hanh

65. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

66. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

— Buddha

67. “Be here now.”

— Ram Dass

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

— Nhat Hanh

69. “Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

70. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

71. “Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

72. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

73. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

74. “With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

75. “You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?”

— Nhat Hanh

77. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

78. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

79. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

80. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

— Alan Watts

81. “Our own life has to be our message.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

82. “Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.”

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

83. “Don’t think about the past. Just be here now.”

— Ram Dass

84. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

85. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

86. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

87. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

88. “Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

— Alan Watts

90. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

91. “The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

— Eckhart Tolle

92. “Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

93. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”

— Eckhart Tolle

94. “If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

— Ajahn Chah

95. “Mindfulness of the body leads to nirvana.”

— Buddha

96. “It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”

— Nhat Hanh

97. “When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”

— Eckhart Tolle

98. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

99. “Only the present moment contains life.”

— Nhat Hanh

100. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle