The Mindful Day Quotes

“To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“My purpose is to translate the wisdom and science of mindfulness, compassion and positive psychology into practical language so we can live with more ease and joy.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“block, avoid, deny, or suppress the hard parts. It was the first”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Whether you’re falling in love or receiving bad news at work, grieving a loss or feeling overwhelmed by the suffering in the world, you have choices both in how you relate to the experience and in how you respond. Mindfulness helps you become more conscious of your impulses in those moments. Often when times are hard (and sometimes when joy is intense), our instinctive response is to turn away from the discomfort and turn toward an external escape to take the edge off: perhaps it’s TV, pharmaceuticals, shopping, social media, or a bottle of wine. Although you might get relief, it’s only temporary. The wiser response is to bring attention to what is hard, and you can do this with mindfulness. Our freedom and happiness are in our power to choose how to show up for the life that is right here and now.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Rehashing the past and worrying about the future dims the vividness and joy available in the present.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“There is skill in choosing which seeds to water—the negative seeds or the positive seeds. It is your garden.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Remember that presence is the ultimate loving gift you can give, and receive.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Our golden retriever Beau was our master teacher in how to greet a loved one. There were days when he would almost knock my husband over after work, meeting him at the front door with happy crying, enthusiastic tail wagging, and a big smile. When Beau died, his evening greeting was noticeably absent. But a few days later, my daughter and I had an idea: When we heard the doorknob turn, we would run to the door, hugging and kissing my husband in a pretty good imitation of Beau. Our dog had taught us how to show love by sincerely welcoming the people we care about into our orbit.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“When you see the world as impermanent, you deepen attention to what is here now because you appreciate that it is temporary.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“being busy does not necessarily mean being effective.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Just the act of moving your pen across paper becomes a meditative act, bringing you into the moment that is right here. You direct your attention to the page, open your mind, and make the invisible visible by seeing what comes through on the page.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Acceptance has nothing to do with being passive.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Mindful awareness is the recognition of what is present here and now, without judgment.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Everyday mindfulness is about cultivating these vivid moments more consistently into your life—to find joy and wonder in the ordinary instead of waiting for special occasions.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“We are each living examples of what we care about.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Mindfulness reinforces a mindset of being open, receptive, accepting, and compassionate. And that starts with noticing your natural tendency to judge, assume you already know something, or resist what life brings or what is out of your control—things that everyone does.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Your Evolutionary Biology in a Modern World As hard as it might be to accept, your mind is not present with what you are doing for about half of your life—47 percent of the time on average, according to a 2010 Harvard study. Where is your mind when it’s not in the present? Often, we are ruminating, worrying, obsessing, judging, or occupied with things that have already happened or might happen: the constructs of our mind, rather than reality.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Drop expectations. In each step of your journey, just allow it to be whatever it is, without having expectations that set you up for the roller coaster of emotions tied to elation and disappointment. Go into new situations and new cultures and meet new people without expecting them to be a certain way. Learn the phrase, “So this is what this is like.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Well-being is a skill that we can develop with practice, preferably done in the morning to maximize effect throughout the day.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Instead of wondering when a situation will change or wishing an anticipated event would soon arrive, you need only to condition your mind to look, pause, and savor the joy that’s already there.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Our freedom and happiness are in our power to choose how to show up for the life that is right here and now.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening

“Navigating the complex world isn’t all that mindfulness addresses, it also helps with the inevitable challenges that life brings - both the joy and the pain.”
― Laurie J. Cameron, The Mindful Day: Practical Ways to Find Focus, Calm, and Joy From Morning to Evening