These inspirational meditation quotes are meant to encourage your development of concentration, presence, sense of self and gratitude. Meditation is one of the most powerful tools you can use to silence your mind and transform your perspective. As you regularly implement this practice into your daily routine you will start to notice lower levels of anxiety and stress in your day-to-day life. This naturally occurs because meditation allows you to simply BE in the present moment where even unpleasant circumstances are temporary. Dwelling on these negative events for days, weeks, months or even years is what keeps them alive and meditation can help to ground us and bring us back into the present to escape such pitfalls of the mind.

I suggest practicing regularly as you will find more effective meditation as you learn the patterns of your mind. With a routine in place, you will find that in a short time you are able to achieve calm, deepened levels of peace and increase your focus, allowing you to live with intention and be your best self. May these quotes inspire your meditation practice and help you find the stillness and peace that exists within you.

1. “Living 24 hours with mindfulness is more worthwhile than living 100 years without it.” – The Buddha

2. “Gratitude is wine for the soul. Go on, get drunk.” – Rumi

3. “Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.”― Jeremy Taylor

4. “Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” – Sharon Salzberg

5. “Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

6.“Sometimes Silence is a Really Good Answer.” – unknown

7. “Silence is life’s most sacred melody.” – unknown

8. “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” – The Buddha

9. “If you correct your mind, the rest will fall into place.” – Lao Tzu

10. “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” -Jana Kingsford

11. “You do not attract what you want. You attract what you are.” -Wayne Dyer

12. “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

13.  “The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” – Ram Dass

14. “Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

15. “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now, without wishing it was different”. – James Baraz

16. “It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.” – Buddha

17. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray