You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here.
Zen proverb
Most of the time, life isn’t an emergency. Much of the time, things will be fine. Save the rush for when it is needed.
Thibaut
Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it’s learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don’t worry if your focus isn’t perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.
Kelly McGonigal
Through practice, you no longer impose your thinking onto reality, and you can experience everything as it really is: as pure grace.
Byron Katie
Being alone with pain and stress isn’t natural. Needing connection, emotional safety, and support doesn’t mean something is wrong with you, it means something is right with you.
Shane Parrish
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
Jack Kornfield
The key is to quiet your mind while in mental hell and embrace whatever obstacle is in front of you with open arms. We must learn to conserve energy and to control the emotional and mental stresses of our setbacks.
David Goggins
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Eckhart Tolle
So many people don’t live for today. They are completely consumed with the future, and yet it is how we live today that creates our future.
Rhonda Byrne
The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.
Andrew J. Bernstein
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Eckhart Tolle
Train your mind to see something good in everything.
Buddhist proverb
We waste our time and cause ourselves needless anxiety if we concern ourselves with things over which we have no control.
William B. Irvine
Being too self-centred can give rise to anxiety and depression. An effective antidote is to cultivate a sense of altruism, taking the whole of humanity into account. Appreciating the oneness of humanity leads us to recognise our essential equality as human beings.
14th Dalai Lama
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
The quiet appreciation of the total situation and its inherent possibilities steadily moves things toward resolution.
Ram Dass
The concept that things should be a certain way causes pain in the mind.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Some people need more focus. Others need to broaden their perspective. Some people need to try harder. Others need to stress less. Some people need to care more. Others need to let it go. The secret is you are both people. The key is to know which one you are in this moment.
James Clear
Society has sold you the greatest of lies, that the goal of life is to become “happy.” This one chase has cost you your life.
Kapil Gupta
To seek happiness is to invite misery.
James Pierce
We need to maintain a balance between our work and the nourishment we need (walking, resting, breathing) or we won’t be very successful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Start from where you are – not where you wish you were. The work you’re doing becomes your path.
Ram Dass
The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.
Robert Greene
Not everything requires a response. This is truth for many things in life and almost everything in the news.
@TheStoicEmperor
Real friends bring out your best, not your stress.
Mel Robbins
We all want comfort and fulfillment. But fulfillment demands progress, and progress is uncomfortable. Decide which one is higher on your values list, and be willing to pay the price.
Johnny Uzan
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Uncertainty, not outcome, is the root of stress.
Naval Ravikant
Our real enemy is not man; it’s not another human being. Our real enemy is our ignorance, discrimination, fear, craving, and violence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Stress and confusion come from being busy. Peace and clarity come from slowing down and stilling your waters.
Maxime Lagacé
The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.
Epictetus
Human life is gradually turning from a struggle against suffering into a struggle against pleasure.
Gurwinder Bhogal
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Lily Tomlin
Stress is the inability to decide what’s important.
@AmuseChimp
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you’re doing.
Sharon Salzberg
There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself.
Brunello Cucinelli
We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?
Epictetus
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
Albert Einstein
Your best self can be found based on how you respond to failure.
David Goggins
The whole world is not looking at you.
Thibaut
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
Plato