Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
-
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
-
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
-
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
-
'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
-
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
-
A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
-
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
-
A new era of responsibility is here.
-
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
-
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
-
It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.
-
I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.
-
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
-
Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
-
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
-
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
