Statistics for Mindfulness - Quotation Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives	Annie Dillard	0%
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom	Bertrand Russell	0%
[Follow] this noble eightfold path: right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration	Buddha	0%
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.	Christopher Morley (An Enchanted Life)	0%
The past has no power over the present moment	Eckhart Tolle (Power of Now)	0%
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet	Emily Dickinson	0%
Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things	Epictetus (The Enchiridion)	0%
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.	Frank Herbert / Bene Gesserit / Paul Atreides / Dune	0%
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain	Gabor Maté	0%
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand	Henry James (Roderick Hudson)	0%
O for a life of sensations, rather than thoughts	John Keats	0%
When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, "If this isn't nice, what is?”	Kurt Vonnegut	0%
It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful	Laozi	0%
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity	Ludwig Wittgenstein	0%
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present	Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)	0%
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.	Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)	0%
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year	Ralph Waldo Emerson (Works and Days)	0%
Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all—the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet	Seneca (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium)	0%
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity	Simone Weil	0%
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)	0%
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life	Victor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)	0%
Optima dies ... prima figut (The best days are the first to go)	Virgil	0%
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite	William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)	0%