Mindfulness quotes

Dhammapada 82, F. Max Müller translation, Project Gutenberg #2017. The verse belongs to a Buddhist canonical collection and remains a textual source voice rather than a quotation by a modern individual author.

“November,” in Poems: Second Series (1891), Project Gutenberg #12242. The passage is tied to the early edited collection and its editorial title.

Poem “The Tables Turned.”

The Mountains of California, in a passage describing morning light on the mountains.

My First Summer in the Sierra, June 13 journal entry.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter X; opening clause of Seneca’s description of the present as continuously moving.

Aurora Leigh, Book VII, printed page 304 / Wikisource scan leaf 313, scan-backed Chapman and Hall third edition (London, 1857), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #56621. Aurora’s “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God” belongs to an explicitly theistic argument about art, spiritual perception and the divine significance of ordinary nature. It remains poetic-religious narration rather than a scientific claim about nature.

Dhammapada 36 in F. Max Müller’s public-domain translation; the verse follows immediately after the teaching that a tamed mind brings happiness.

Psalm 118:24 in the King James Version; the verse joins the present day with rejoicing and gratitude.

“Autumn,” Poems: First Series (1890), Project Gutenberg #12242. The title and punctuation follow the represented early printed edition rather than a modern manuscript-based Dickinson edition.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 2.

The Way of Peace, “The Power of Meditation”; Allen closes his account of meditation by connecting sustained contemplation with knowledge of truth and profound peace.

Meditations, Book IV, section 17, in George Long’s translation.

Anne of Green Gables; Anne describes deliberate enjoyment as a practiced attitude toward experience.

Dhammapada 205, Max Müller translation; the verse joins solitude and tranquillity with “drinking in the law,” preserving its religious context.

Short poem commonly titled “Eternity”; Blake contrasts grasping with the passing movement of joy.

Walden, “Economy”; wording lightly normalized from the surrounding sentence.

Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 101.

The Simple Life, Chapter II, Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; Wagner is defining the “essence of simplicity.”

Opening of “Auguries of Innocence”; Blake places vastness inside tiny natural forms.

“An August Midnight,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The five include the speaker and small creatures gathered around his writing table.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter III, “The Problem,” Project Gutenberg #2852. Sherlock Holmes says that the world is full of obvious things nobody observes after inferring from Watson’s clean clothes and boots that he spent the rainy day indoors, then asks Watson to infer where Holmes himself has been. It remains fictional detective dialogue illustrating Holmes’s observational method rather than a universal scientific rule.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter VIII; Seneca describes life continuing quietly regardless of power or applause.

The Republic, Book V; Socrates places opinion between knowledge and ignorance in the argument about what each apprehends.

Of Peace of Mind, section XIV, Aubrey Stewart translation (1889), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and Wikisource. Seneca turns attention away from external things toward the mind itself while discussing flexibility under changes of fortune; this is historical Stoic counsel, not modern clinical guidance.

Meditations, Book IV, in George Long’s translation.

Meditations, Book VII, in George Long’s translation.

Dhammapada 157, Chapter XII “Self,” in Max Müller’s translation; the verse explicitly joins self-regard with watchfulness and ethical discipline.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter X; Seneca contrasts the small present with the recoverable memory of past days.

The Way to Wealth; a Poor Richard maxim on delay and useful employment of time.

Signs of Change, lecture “The Aims of Art”; Project Gutenberg #3053. The passage belongs to Morris’s socialist argument about labor, leisure and art in daily life.

Tao Teh King, chapter 16, James Legge translation; the following lines connect stillness with the recurring return of things to their root.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter IX; Seneca immediately qualifies his call to seize the day by emphasizing that time remains swift even when used well.

Character Building, “Two Sides of Life,” Project Gutenberg #60484. This is an illustrative scene about perspective, not a claim that difficult conditions should always be reframed positively.

Amiel's Journal, 1851 diary entry, translated by Mary Augusta Ward; the passage belongs to Amiel’s introspective effort to reach clarity beneath divided feeling.

Dhammapada 39, Max Müller translation; its religious vocabulary belongs to the text’s discipline of watchful thought and should not be reduced to a clinical claim about anxiety.

Meditations, Book IV, section 48 in George Long’s public-domain translation, Project Gutenberg #6920/#15877 tradition. The olive image follows a reflection on the shortness of life and frames gratitude as part of accepting mortality rather than denying loss.

Enchiridion, section 8; Epictetus applies Stoic acceptance to events outside personal control.

Pepacton. Burroughs writes “Watch and wait” after describing an observation that corrected a gap in his own natural-history knowledge; the phrase is practical field-observation advice in literary natural history.

The World I Live In (1908), Chapter VI, “Smell, the Fallen Angel,” printed page 79, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller calls smell a potent wizard after describing scent as capable of restoring distant places and earlier periods of her life; the sentence is autobiographical sensory reflection, not a general neuroscience claim.

Poem in Poems: First Series (1890), represented as “The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me” for source disambiguation; Project Gutenberg #12242. The title is an editorial first-line identifier.

Travels in Alaska, same Stickeen excursion; the sentence follows Muir’s description of the world seeming newly born.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles describes labour as cooperation with nature and personifies nature as supplying the conditions under which human work produces food and materials; it is not a scientific account of agriculture.

Tao Teh King, chapter 47, James Legge translation; the sentence belongs to a passage about knowing without compulsive outward searching.

The Simple Life, Chapter II, Mary Louise Hendee translation, Project Gutenberg #23092; the phrase appears in Wagner’s argument for returning attention to essentials.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XXVII, Hastings Crossley translation.

As a Man Thinketh, in the discussion of thought, health, and habit.

The World I Live In (1908), Chapter IX, “Inward Visions,” printed page 119, Project Gutenberg #27683. Keller says that the wonders of the universe are revealed in proportion to our capacity to receive them and immediately connects keenness of vision with feeling, love of nature and imaginative receptiveness.

Discourses of Epictetus, Book I, Chapter XVI, “Of Providence,” George Long translation; 1877 George Bell & Sons witness on Wikisource, cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #10661. The passage is explicitly theological Stoicism: Epictetus says understanding should lead people to sing hymns, bless the deity and recount divine benefits.