A Mindful Year Quotes

“When we make sweeping judgments about others, we stop seeing them. We overlook the subtleties, nuances, and intricacies that make each individual and each situation unique. We lose sight of that person and the rich context in which they are acting.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Love yourself and look after yourself today.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“When you notice that you’re feeling off, low, dissatisfied, or disheartened, remind yourself that it’s okay not to feel okay.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself. ​— ​Leo Buscaglia”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Acts of kindness stimulate the production of serotonin and reduce pain, stress, anxiety, and low mood. People who volunteer tend to experience fewer aches and pains.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ​— ​Henry James”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Thankfully, I had a coach who understood my mental game. He taught me that my nervousness reflected a lack of concentration as I mentally played out points and games and sets.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“When we’re willing to be present and see life as it is, we risk feeling the full suite of human emotions. We may be wounded in the process, even as we’re enriched.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“When we’re habitually on our phones, the scenery never changes. When we override the automatic reach into our pocket and instead stay in the world around us, we never know what might happen.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Each day is a new beginning, a resetting. Nothing says that an insight from today will stay with us tomorrow—or even that it should. We need regular reminders of what is true and important and worth paying attention to. Invitation Each day is an opportunity to remember what you know so well.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“I find that I forget many things: that worrying is a waste of mental energy, that gratitude is the surest path to well-being, that serving others satisfies me in a way that focusing on my own narrow and petty concerns cannot.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Life has its own natural rhythm too. Rather than fight against it, we can choose to breathe with it.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Breathe and rest in the flow of life.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“We build internal mental models about the day’s proceedings; this is a natural human tendency that guides us. Expectations are necessary and helpful in our work and personal lives. But when we cling rigidly to our expectations, we create a condition in which we can only relax and be happy if they are fulfilled and set ourselves up for tension, irritation, and resentment when they aren’t. If we can find a way to ease our grip on our expectations, peace will be uncovered.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ​— ​Joseph Campbell”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“And then I realized, in a surprising moment of clarity, that nothing was the matter; I was just irritable. In that pause, I remembered that we don’t have to take our negative moods so seriously. We can maintain a little distance from our moods rather than lose ourselves in them, which gives us more choice about how we react.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“If you find yourself worrying about an uncertain outcome today, remember, life is uncertain. Open yourself to the continual unfolding of life as it is revealed moment by moment.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation. ​— ​Mark Batterson”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“If we want to be our own source of care rather than condemnation, the first step is to become aware of our inner voice, particularly during those moments we are charged with hostility rather than warmth.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship that you have with yourself. Who else is with you at all times? ​— ​Diane von Fürstenberg”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“To find yourself, lose yourself in the service of others. ​— ​Mahatma Gandhi”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“We can live each day connected to our values. We can work toward our goals, however ambitious, with integrity and authenticity. We can treat every person the way we would like to be treated.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Today, look for even small opportunities to choose living well over immediate comfort or pleasure.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Notice when difficult thoughts and feelings arise, particularly when you feel or think that you should be doing something else. See if you can perceive your situation in a new light and discover the meaning that lies hidden in your everyday actions.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Enlightenment is awareness: becoming mindful of the present moment and what you’re doing, feeling, and thinking.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Invitation Notice today when your mind is running ahead of where you actually are. Whatever today brings, remember that you can abide in the present—starting right now.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“How refreshing it is to remember that all we can do is what we’re doing right now—that that’s everything. We can allow ourselves to be fully in our experience, whatever that may be. We can find rest there.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“One of the biggest challenges to connecting with what’s most important to us is the feeling that we “should” be doing something else—even when we’re doing exactly what we need to be doing. We might spend our entire day never really doing what we’re doing as we try to get through this activity so we can move on to “what’s really important.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“You are always standing in the middle of sacred space, standing in the middle of the circle…Whatever comes into the space is there to teach you. ​— ​Pema Chödrön”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. ​— ​Bill Nye Something that I forget time and time again is that the person in front of me is usually trying their best. It can be tempting to judge people based on specific actions. It can be so easy to label someone as bad, selfish, obnoxious, or arrogant—sometimes even evil. We rarely stand in the shoes of others, see through their eyes, and truly understand their perspectives. But if and when we catch ourselves displaying those same behaviors, we have the opportunity to see and understand the context that may have given rise to them. In a similar way, as we grow in knowledge, experience, and wisdom, we can be lured into thinking that we have all the answers—that we know best. There’s something intrinsically dangerous about that rigidity of belief and unwillingness to learn from others. As the Zen proverb goes, “It takes a wise person to learn from his or her mistakes, but an even wiser one to learn from others.”
― Aria Campbell-Danesh, A Mindful Year: Daily Meditations: Reduce Stress, Manage Anxiety, and Find Happiness in Everyday Life