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Quotes About Serenity

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
~ Josef Pieper
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
~ James Pierrepont Greaves
Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
~ Laozi
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.
~ Frederick Lenz
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
~ Amelia Barr
Pure and simple, balance is happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
~ Russell Simmons
Happiness is an immunity.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.
~ Bobbejaan Schoepen
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
~ Frederick Lenz
Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.
~ Goswami Kriyananda
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
~ Charles Bukowski, On Cats
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
~ Eraldo Banovac
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
~ Epictetus
The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
~ Leo Babauta
Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched...
~ Eileen A. Soper
.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.
~ Gyula Krúdy, Sunflower
A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.
~ Aldous Huxley
disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness
~ Padgett Powell, You & I