48 quotes
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
— Milarepa
“Compassion is an unstable emotion that needs to be steadied by practice and kindness is that practice”
— Joan Halifax
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“Practice is just opening to whatever comes being willing to have things as they are”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“Happiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.”
— Matthieu Ricard
“Action comes before thought.”
— Anonymous
“Have you eaten your rice porridge Then wash your bowl”
— Joshu
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
— Dalai Lama
“Mindfulness isnt difficult. We just need to remember to do it.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“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
“We are what we repeatedly do. Meditation is therefore not an act but a habit.”
— Sakyong Mipham
“How you do anything is how you do everything so practice compassion in the smallest moments”
— Cheri Huber
“When we practice generating compassion we can expect to experience our fear of pain”
— Pema Chodron
“One action is stronger than a thousand words.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”
— Dilgo Khyentse
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassion”
“Your first ten thousand photographs are your worst”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
“All life is yoga”
— Sri Aurobindo
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
“If you don't do it now, it will be harder later.”
“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory”
— Swami Satchidananda
“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
— Wang Yangming
“Beginners practice not thinking about whether a thing is good or bad they practice just doing it”
— Huang Po
“The hardest part of anything is the beginning.”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
— Gautama Buddha
“To practice any art no matter how well or badly is a way to make your soul grow. So do it with creativity.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The point is not to become a buddhist the point is to become a buddha”
— Tenzin Palmo
“You cannot have an up without a down and you cannot have love without practicing compassion”
— Alan Watts
“If you practice an art be proud of it and make it proud of you”
— Philip Glass
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion if you want to be happy practice compassion and kindness”
“Knowledge without practice is useless.”
— Kant
“Dont only practice your art but force your way into its secrets for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine through creativity.”
— Beethoven
“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“Settle into solitude as if it were the one thing in the world you know how to do.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
— Unknown
“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice”
— Anton Chekhov
“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
“All skills are perfected through practice.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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