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If you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment,
patience takes care of itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Mindfulness means being awake.
It means being aware of what you are doing.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Dwell in stillness.
Observe without reacting and without judging.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off.
It is seeing things clearly,
and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is a form of wisdom.
It demonstrates that we understand and accept
the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is just this moment.
We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient...
only the universe rearranging itself.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
All the suffering, stress, and addiction
comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The mind constantly chatters.
That chatter winds up being the force
that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,
what we react to, and how we feel.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Look at other people and ask yourself
if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Breathe and let be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is,
and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Any change that comes about in your life
will be primarily because of your own efforts.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way:
on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling,
in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome
which comes out of allowing things to be as they are
without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them,
in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Patience is an ever present alternative
to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience.
Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find
lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger.
It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are
and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.
This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to.
It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,
moving fast because you have chosen to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
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