The milk boiled over, the favorite bowl broken and somehow everything goes wrong again?

"You stupid cow!", "You idiot!", "It was obvious you couldn't fix it!"

There are things we would never say to our children. Words that are so scathing and mean that we wouldn't hurl them at our loved ones even in the greatest rage. 

But we often insult ourselves with the most awful expressions and phrases. 
Mindfulness is not just meditation or yoga. It is a way of life, a part of our thinking. 

Imagine that your thoughts were like a garden. What would you plant there? How would you deal with your garden?

"Your thoughts are like a garden: pay attention to what you plant and what thoughts you grow."

Tina Lauer of STORIETTE

What is mindfulness?

Basically, mindfulness is being aware of and reflecting on yourself and your life. In the hustle and bustle of our everyday life, this is not so easy. Someone constantly wants something from us and we think we don't have time to focus on ourselves.

Mindfulness exercises can help us to reduce stress and to better perceive and deal with our emotions. As a result, we are more relaxed, calm and focused. 

Actually paradoxically, it is more efficient to take a conscious break for 1 hour instead of working through it. 

But every time we walk in nature for an hour a day, we usually have much more energy and fresher ideas afterwards than if we hadn't done it. 

One of our favorite quotes, therefore, is: 

"If you're in a hurry, walk slowly. If you're in an even bigger hurry, take a detour." (From Japan)

Here, we've brought you our 15 favorite quotes around the topics of "mindfulness" and "self-care." 

We recommend:
🌸... to read through them at your leisure,

🌸... and let the words have an effect on you,

🌸 ...then pick out the sayings that do something good in you and particularly appeal to you.

🌸 ... maybe even write them down on a piece of paper and hang them up in your apartment. 

In this way, you will gradually cultivate your garden with valuable and beautiful plants and can enjoy them every day.

By the way, you can easily implement mindfulness and self-care in your everyday life by making sure to reduce your social media and cell phone use. 

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
(Louise Lynn Hay, US writer, 1926-2017)

"Beware of spending your life trying to live up to the expectations of others."
(unknown)

"Always remember that there is only one important time: Today. Here. Now."
(Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, 1828-1910)

"Happiness often comes from attention to small things, unhappiness often from neglect of small things."
(Wilhelm Busch, German poet, 1832-1908)

"You yourself, like every person in the whole universe, deserve your love and affection."
Buddha

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are."
(Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist of the grunge band "Nirvana", 1967-1994)

"Don't just do something, sit there." Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there."
(Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk)

"Spend some time with yourself every day."
(Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, b. 1935)

"Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others."
(Parker Palmer, American author and activist, *1939)

"Time we take is time that gives us something."
(Ernst Ferstl, Austrian teacher and writer, b. 1955)

"Do not let the behavior of others disturb your inner peace."
(Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, *1935)

"He who does not have two-thirds of his day to himself is a slave."
Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, I, Aph. 283)

"Nothing moves us forward on our journey better than a pause."
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, 1806-1861)

"If one does not find rest within oneself, it is in vain to seek it elsewhere."
(François VI de La Rochefoucauld, French. Nobleman, activist and writer, 1613-1680)

"Everything you perceive on the outside is only the reflection of what is happening on the inside."
(unknown)

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