Top 200 Mindfulness Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

102. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “Go slowly, breathe and smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

104. “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

105. “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; it makes us value the inner world; it trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.”

— Deepak Chopra

106. “It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

107. “The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

108. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

109. “The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

110. “Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

111. “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we go.”

— Pema Chödrön

112. “Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as they are.”

— Tara Brach

113. “I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.”

— Nhat Hanh

114. “I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

— Paulo Coelho

115. “The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”

— Sam Harris

116. “Always make new mistakes.”

— Esther Dyson

117. “Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”

— Nhat Hanh

118. “The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

119. “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”

— Sylvia Boorstein

120. “I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

121. “For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

122. “If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

123. “World is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”

— Amit Ray

124. “You get there by realizing you are already there.”

— Eckhart Tolle

125. “Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. – Don Juan.”

— Carlos Castaneda

126. “Stretch your mind and fly.”

— Whitney M. Young

127. “Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

128. “Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.”

— Pema Chödrön

129. “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child – our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

— Nhat Hanh

130. “If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile.”

— Nhat Hanh

131. “Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.”

— Ayya Khema

132. “I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

133. “Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.”

— Ram Dass

134. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

135. “There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.”

— Nhat Hanh

136. “Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

137. “You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

138. “The only thing you ever have is now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

139. “If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.”

— Nhat Hanh

140. “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

— Nhat Hanh

141. “The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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

— Rumi

143. “The future never comes. Life is always now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

144. “When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.”

— Nhat Hanh

145. “It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

146. “The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct.”

— C.G. Jung

147. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

148. “If you walk into a forest – you hear all kinds of subtle sounds – but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

149. “The next message you need is always right where you are.”

— Ram Dass

150. “Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breathe and you see impermanence is life.”

— Nhat Hanh