73 Amazing Mindfulness Quotes To Inspire Anyone

We can all use a pick me up every once in a while. Daily inspiration can be hard to come by with all the thoughts that run through our minds daily. We’ve compiled 73 mindfulness quotes that will inspire your thoughts and provide anxiety relief. Quotes about mindfulness can be used to promote positive mental and self-care habits which you can start today!

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What is mindfulness?

A mental state achieved by focusing one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/mindfulness

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“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
― thich nhat hanh, Stepping into Freedom: Rules of Monastic Practice for Novices

“Do you have the time to be there for yourself? Do you have the time for a cup of tea, for an orange, for your in-breath, your out-breath? Do you have the time to take steps without thinking of your projects?”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

“A well-cared for body aids a well-trained mind. A well-trained mind leads to a well-defined spirit.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“We do not have any power over external events. Conversely, events have no power to cause us to think or feel any particular way, even though they may adversely affect our physical surroundings. What we do have is an amazing power; the power to choose the way we look at events, which, in turn, effects our feelings about them. Choose wisely, the thoughts you entertain.”
― Elizabeth M. Lykins, Reflections on Transcendence

“The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.

When we hesitate in being direct, we unknowingly slip something on, some added layer of protection that keeps us from feeling the world, and often that thin covering is the beginning of a loneliness which, if not put down, diminishes our chances of joy.

–Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath

“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath

“Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath

“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”
― James Baraz

“The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.”
― Gabor Maté

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”
― Evita Ochel

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

“When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose of Christmas

“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”
― Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“We are not our feelings. Feelings come and go.”
― Heather Hawk Feinberg

“Don’t just pass by the present moment. Enter it.”

― Shunya

“We are like an ocean wave that believes it is fragile and ugly and that the other waves are more beautiful, more powerful. […] But when this wave gets in touch with its true nature, water, it sees that water goes beyond all concepts of beautiful, ugly, high, low, here, and there. Whether it’s a large wave or a small wave, half a wave or a third of a wave, it is still made out of water. Water is beyond all these qualifications—it is without birth and without death. A wave is really only water, and as far as water is concerned, all waves are equal because all waves are water.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

“Your mind is too focussed on human beings. Observe the patterns, shapes, colours, texture, sounds and sensations around you. Soon you will come out of human identity and realize that you’re not a person but a presence. You’re not something that exists; you’re the existence itself.”
― Shunya

“When you dwell on the past, you are wasting the limited time you have on this earth. You are missing the beauty of the present moment. Place your attention and energy on the people and activities you love and how you can be of service, here and now. You are human, imperfect, and whole, just as you are.”
― Jessica Speer

“We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Just watching our thoughts in a relaxed way for a few moments each day will make a positive impression on our mind and start to provide us with an objective viewpoint for observing our life.”
― Adam Dacey, Guide to the Mindful Way of Life

“Create inclusion – with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.”
― Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

“The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future.”
― Deborah A. Beasley

“My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun, fear, and self are one. What is exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier and the wolf, which, finding themselves at the center of things, have no need for any secret of true being. In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us…the present moment. The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment’ it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“What often matters more than the activity we’re doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.”
― Brigid Schulte, Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

“The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“We must dare to be true to ourselves – to see ourselves as we really are.”
― Annika Sorensen, Take Stress from Chaos to Calm

“Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.”
― Anna Quindlan Every Last One

“If you feel depressed for an hour, you’ve produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.”
― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present… gratefully.”
― Maya Angelou

“Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.”
― L.M. Browning, Vagabonds and Sundries

“Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business

“Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction – you’re own.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”

“The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of color patches scattered just so. The configuration will never be repeated. Living is moving; time is a live creek bearing changing lights. As I move, or as the world moves around me, the fullness of what I see shatters. “Last forever!” Who hasn’t prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying; it is a canvas, nevertheless.

But there is more to the present than a series of snapshots. We are not merely sensitized film; we have feelings, a memory for information and an eidetic memory for the imagery of our pasts.

Our layered consciousness is a tiered track for an unmatched assortment of concentrically wound reels. Each one plays out for all of life its dazzle and blur of translucent shadow-pictures; each one hums at every moment its own secret melody in its own unique key. We tune in and out. But moments are not lost. Time out of mind is time nevertheless, cumulative, informing the present. From even the deepest slumber you wake with a jolt- older, closer to death, and wiser, grateful for breath.

But time is the one thing we have been given, and we have been given to time. Time gives us a whirl. We keep waking from a dream we can’t recall, looking around in surprise, and lapsing back, for years on end. All I want to do is stay awake, keep my head up, prop my eyes open, with toothpicks, with trees.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.”
― Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

“When we invoke stillness within our consciousness, we have the power to recover the child we forgot that we once were.”
― Daniel St. Clair, The Primal Contradiction: My Escape From the Pitfall of Self-Delusion

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any more than the planet is smooth; not even a single hydrogen atom is smooth, let alone a pine. Nor does it fit together; not even the chlorophyll and hemoglobin molecules are a perfect match, for, even after the atom of iron replaces the magnesium, long streamers of disparate atoms trail disjointedly from the rims of the molecule’s loops. Freedom cuts both ways. Mystery itself is as fringed and intricate at the shape of the air at times. Forays into mystery cut bays and fine fjords, but the forested mainland itself is implacable both in its bulk and in its most filigreed fringe of detail.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”
― A.D. Posey

“Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. Only here can we be with the people we love, enjoy the things we like and see beautiful places.”
― Lidiya K., This Moment

“Mastering our thoughts can only be achieved after we truly understand what reality is. Thus, it is time to shatter your pre-conceived concept of reality. First, the majority of what you perceive as reality exists only in your mind, and, chances are, you spend most hours of your life in this illusion.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life

“Be aware of the voices in your head. Identify them. Just because you hear it doesn’t mean it’s your voice saying it. And just because you think it doesn’t mean it’s true.”
― Toni Sorenson

“Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot change what we are not aware of.”
― Jose Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness

“People will react to you as a result of their own mindset, rather than as a reflection of your worth. Most people use others as mirrors for their own darkness. If you have been hurt by such people, perhaps you can use these experiences to become a different kind of person—one who reflects the light within others instead of using them as mirrors. Maybe your experiences of pain can lead you to being a great leader, someone who lights up the world. Your most painful struggle is ripe with opportunity.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness for Beginners

“We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.”
― Cristen Rodgers

“It’s is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich – beyond material and transient things.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention.”
― Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu

“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection