🧘 Mindfulness

“The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate.”

— Leibniz

#reasoning #mathematics

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#forgiveness #strength

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”

— John Stuart Mill

#morality #empathy

“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”

— Lewis Carroll

#regret #chance

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#attitude #perspective #living

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

— Unknown

#morning #mindfulness #fresh start

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”

— Omar Khayyam

#mindfulness #joy #presence

“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#mindfulness #attention #non-judgment

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

— Amit Ray

#anxiety #breathing #presence

“Even while they teach, men learn.”

— Seneca the Younger

#learning #teaching

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, that will be enough.”

— Meister Eckhart

#gratitude #prayer #sufficiency

“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”

— Lao Tzu

#openness #humility #awareness

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.”

— Michel de Montaigne

#fear #suffering

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

#journey #beginnings

“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”

— Socrates

#self-awareness #mindfulness #wisdom

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #life

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#happiness #knowledge

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

#mind #inspiration

“The only journey is the one within.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#journey #self-discovery

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

#worry #mindfulness #anxiety

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

#letting-go #peace #freedom

“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”

— Amma

#desire #happiness #simplicity

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#mindfulness #inner strength #presence

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing.”

— Sadhguru

#wonder #intelligence #openness

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#mindfulness #thoughts

“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life #understanding

“What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

#thoughts #reality

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

— Horace

#mindfulness #self-control #discipline

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

#time #value

“The entire universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— S.N. Goenka

#inner-universe #self-reliance #depth

“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

#ethics #morality

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.”

— Rene Descartes

#doubt #wisdom

“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”

— Zen Proverb

#mindfulness #presence #simplicity

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

#reaction #circumstance

“When walking walk. When eating eat.”

— Zen Proverb

#presence #simplicity #focus

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

#stillness #mindfulness #calm

“The obstacle is the path.”

— Zen Proverb

#obstacle #path

“Its being here now that is important. There is no past and there is no future.”

— George Harrison

#present #now #awareness

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”

— Oscar Wilde

#life #self-development

“One cannot step twice in the same river.”

— Heraclitus

#change #impermanence

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”

— Charles Kingsleigh

#belief #possibility

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

— Zen Proverb

#ordinary #enlightenment #daily

“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”

— Lao Tzu

#patience #mindfulness #clarity

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

— George Washington

#liberty #growth

“This above all; to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

#authenticity #truth

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Buddha

#mind #thoughts #destiny

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Dan Millman

#change #focus

“Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.”

— Protagoras

#man #measurement

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

— John Stuart Mill

#liberty #desire

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#happiness #mindfulness #inner life

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

#education #thoughts

“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”

— Jack Kornfield

#letting-go #love #living

“To be or not to be, that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

#existence #question

“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”

— Alan Watts

#engagement #presence #living

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.”

— Michel De Montaigne

#fear #suffering

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

— Simone Weil

#attention #generosity #presence

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it.”

— Dogen Zenji

#presence #truth #here-now

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

#passion #life

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

— George Eliot

#change #potential

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

#self-mastery #mindfulness #discipline

“Happiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.”

— Matthieu Ricard

#happiness #practice #cultivation

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”

— Ram Dass

#silence #listening #awareness

“Happiness is a state of mind.”

— Aristotle

#happiness #mind

“Mindfulness is the quality of mind that notices what is present without judgment, without interference.”

— Joseph Goldstein

#mindfulness #nonjudgment #observation

“Know thyself.”

— Thales of Miletus

#self-awareness #mindfulness #wisdom

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— Plato

#kindness #empathy

“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peace. This of course would be an attachment to stillness.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#balance #attachment #practice

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

— Gautama Buddha

#health #present moment #wisdom

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

— Rumi

#silence #spirit #depth

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#mindfulness #thoughts

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#growth #trust #evolution

“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.”

— Gautama Buddha

#awareness #desire #mindfulness

“I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.”

— Spinoza

#control #emotions

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#solitude #inner peace #mindfulness

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

#life #meaning

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#self-awareness #wisdom #mindfulness

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#purpose #resilience

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

— John Locke

#knowledge #experience

“God is dead.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#religion #belief

“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”

— Tara Brach

#acceptance #freedom #expansion

“Where would I possibly find enough leather with which to cover the surface of the earth? But wearing leather on the soles of my feet is equivalent to covering the earth with it.”

— Shantideva

#perspective #inner-change #wisdom

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

— Socrates

#Self #Thoughts

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

— Buddha

#failure #honesty

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Unknown

#mindfulness #thoughts #transformation

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

#contentment #mindfulness #gratitude

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#present #focus #awareness

“Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone elses life.”

— Steve Jobs

#authenticity #time #presence

“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”

— Robert Byrne

#life #purpose

“In mindfulness, acceptance always comes first, change comes after.”

— Chade-Meng Tan

#acceptance #change #sequence

“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

#practice #remembering #simplicity

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

— Goethe

#dreams #inspiration

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#philosophy #language

“Give me liberty, or give me death.”

— Patrick Henry

#freedom #sacrifice

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

— Coco Chanel

#difference #uniqueness

“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

#life #understanding

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Aristotle

#genius #madness

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#meditation #attention #purpose

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”

— Buddha

#thoughts #identity

“Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else. It is about being where you are.”

— Sharon Salzberg

#mindfulness #acceptance #being

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”

— Unknown

#mindfulness #presence #slowness

“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”

— Mooji

#self-discovery #truth #courage

“Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”

— William of Ockham

#simplicity #problem-solving

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

#letting-go #peace #practice

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Samuel Johnson

#kindness #character

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

— Unknown

#mindfulness #zen #simplicity

“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”

— Seneca

#contentment #mindfulness #desire

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#life #fear

“Meditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.”

— Jack Kornfield

#meditation #awareness #acceptance

“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”

— Martin Heidegger

#thought #mistake

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#breathing #emotions #anchor

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

— Aristotle

#habits #action

“Man is the measure of all things.”

— Protagoras

#man #measure

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

— Emiliano Zapata

#pride #survival

“It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.”

— Emile Zola

#strength #truth

“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”

— Milarepa

#meditation #mindfulness #practice

“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.”

— Chuang Tzu

#perspective #mindfulness #wisdom

“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#silence #soul #meditation

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#reality #imagination

“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”

— Epictetus

#freedom #desire

“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.”

— Seng-Tsan

#non-attachment #ease #path

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#self-acceptance #beauty #authenticity

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

— Dogen Zenji

#self-study #enlightenment #zen

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

— Lao Tzu

#presence #peace #awareness

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

— Voltaire

#freedom of speech #tolerance

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

#mind #use

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”

— John Milton

#mind #perspective

“What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#adversity #strength

“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.”

— Aristotle

#genius #madness

“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”

— Patanjali

#meditation #mindfulness #soul

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#mindfulness #thoughts #inner life

“The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away, and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure.”

— Ryokan

#purity #perception #heart

“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

— Thomas Hobbes

#life #reality

“Happiness is the highest good.”

— Aristotle

#happiness #good

“The only thing permanent in life is change.”

— Heraclitus

#change #life

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Gautama Buddha

#mindfulness #presence

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #perseverance

“Wherever you go, there you are.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#presence #mindfulness #awareness

“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”

— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

#optimism #life

“The whole path of mindfulness is this: whatever you are doing, be aware of it.”

— Dipa Ma

#awareness #path #simplicity

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafiz

#self-love #light #awareness

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#mindfulness

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

— John Muir

#imagination #potential

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde

#self #authenticity

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

#destiny #self-control

“The soul that moves in the world of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony... finds rest in quietness.”

— Vyasa

#mindfulness #inner peace #senses

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”

— Grandma Moses

#life #creation

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

#understanding #time #paradox

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#thoughts #mindfulness #mental health

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ethics #identity

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Lao Tzu

#journey #beginnings

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#strength #resilience

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.”

— Plato

#calm #mindfulness #aging

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#beginners-mind #openness #possibility

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#awareness #society #conformity

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

— Buddha

#present #mindfulness

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

#emotion #sanity

“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

#wisdom #knowledge

“The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

#suffering #attachment

“The only true failure is not to try.”

— George Clooney

#failure #courage

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#stillness #mindfulness #peace

“Man is by nature a social animal.”

— Aristotle

#society #human nature

“The power of mindful awareness to transform our experience of suffering into wisdom is one of the great discoveries of the contemplative tradition.”

— Nyanaponika Thera

#transformation #wisdom #suffering

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#thoughts #happiness #perception

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive: to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#gratitude #morning #awareness

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.”

— Gautama Buddha

#mindfulness #thoughts #awareness

“We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgments about them.”

— Epictetus

#judgment #suffering #perception

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

#mindfulness #perception #thoughts

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.”

— Adyashanti

#enlightenment #truth #transformation

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

— Charles Darwin

#time #life

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

— Seneca

#happiness #presence #contentment

“The obstacle is the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#obstacle #way

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— Albus Dumbledore

#dreams #living

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

#attention #wonder #living

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”

— Joseph Goldstein

#balance #acceptance #awareness

“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#presence #awareness #now

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Laozi

#stillness #mind #universe

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#speech #silence

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#life #purpose

“What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

#seeking #destiny #connection

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

#life #self-creation

“To be is to be perceived.”

— George Berkeley

#perception #reality

“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

— Abraham Lincoln

#life #meaning

“To be is to do.”

— Immanuel Kant

#existence #action

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#thoughts #life

“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.”

— Lao Tzu

#mind #order #mindfulness

“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”

— Solomon

#mindfulness #heart #awareness

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”

— Buddha

#manifestation #creation

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.”

— Jan Chozen Bays

#balance #acceptance #awareness

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

— Socrates

#change #focus

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#observation #intelligence #awareness

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

— William James

#stress #choice

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

— Socrates

#teaching #thinking

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#deception #opinion

“The future depends on what you do today.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#future #action

“Sleep is the best meditation.”

— Dalai Lama

#sleep #rest #meditation

“The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.”

— John Locke

#mind #experience

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#present-moment #joy #attention

“It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.”

— John Locke

#truth #knowledge

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

— Rumi

#authenticity #discovery #self

“I am that I am.”

— Baruch Spinoza

#existence #self

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

#change #action

“Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.”

— Bhante Gunaratana

#freedom #choices #time

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

— Socrates

#knowledge #ignorance

“Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.”

— Osho

#experience #wholeness #acceptance

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”

— Buddha

#thought #self

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

— Oscar Wilde

#temptation #resistance

“The point of the spiritual path is not to avoid all pain. It is to learn how to deal with pain and difficult situations skillfully.”

— Lama Surya Das

#pain #skillfulness #path

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

#art #meaning

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#mindfulness #change #awareness

“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).”

— George Berkeley

#perception #existence

“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences and Teflon for positive ones.”

— Rick Hanson

#neuroscience #negativity-bias #awareness

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is — infinite.”

— William Blake

#perception #mindfulness #awareness

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#limitation #doubt

“Man is by nature a political animal.”

— Aristotle

#society #politics

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#simplicity #practice #calm

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstanding

“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#freedom #society

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

— Theophrastus

#time #value

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

— W.B. Yeats

#mindfulness #wonder #awareness

“The goal of meditation is not to control your thoughts, it is to stop letting them control you.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#meditation #thoughts #freedom

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

#silence #mindfulness #wisdom

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

— Plato

#people #discovery

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#preparation #effort

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

#change #future

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”

— Lao Tzu

#wisdom #self-knowledge

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

— Jimmy Dean

#Adaptability #Persistence

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”

— Jeremy Bentham

#happiness #morality

“Who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#purpose #resilience

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#freedom #society

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— Albus Dumbledore

#happiness #hope

“Do not just do something, sit there.”

— Sylvia Boorstein

#stillness #meditation #being

“We are what we repeatedly do. Meditation is therefore not an act but a habit.”

— Sakyong Mipham

#habit #practice #repetition

“Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#letting-go #trust #abundance

“What is scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away.”

— Heraclitus

#impermanence #mindfulness #change

“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#identity #thoughts #liberation

“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

— Mark Twain

#worry #imagination #perspective

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

#prayer #change

“Remember, it is being aware of thoughts, not getting rid of them, that is the point.”

— Andy Puddicombe

#awareness #thoughts #meditation

“Life is always in the present tense.”

— Charlotte Joko Beck

#presence #life #now

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

#life #simplicity

“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”

— Anne Frank

#mistakes #prevention

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

— Plato

#Contentment #Simplicity

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow.”

— Gautama Buddha

#thoughts #mindfulness #awareness

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

— Edmund Burke

#evil #action

“People look for retreats for themselves in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. But nowhere can a person retreat more peacefully than into their own soul.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#mindfulness #inner retreat #solitude

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life #suffering

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

#change #self-improvement

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

#mindfulness #intention #presence

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”