Quotes About Serenity

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

To smell mixed with the strong coffee the faint pleasant scent of cedar from the ceiling's wooden beams. To be quiet and still and have all thought be channeled into observing the lives of creatures that stirred only after Sam had gone to sleep. It felt, over time, like not just a distraction but being part of something that as yet required nothing from her.

The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is necessary to stay in it like oaks to know it. (1884)

In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.

The world is dark and quiet, except for the soft rustling of leaves and the cry of a a wolf in the distance.

A few moments later, a group of white birds landed on the steps to watch her. "Hello there!" she said and removed some birdseed from her pocket, laying it on the steps for them to eat. When they were finished, they stayed to watch her work. She didn't mind. It helped to have company, even if they couldn't talk. She found herself talking to them sometimes. True, some might call her mad for conversing with animals, but who was paying attention?

You have nothing to gain by freaking out.

Finding compassion is one of the most effective ways to earn your flowy spiritual robes.

I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive.

That is why I brought you here, to keep you with me, where you can please make . . . everything . . . stop.

He pulled her close. "Your being with me makes it stop. It's like the Ming bowls - when I touch them and feel them, everything stops. You are the same. That is why I brought you here, to keep you with me, where you can please make...everything...stop.

Man braucht nicht immer einen Plan. Manchmal reicht es schonn, wenn man ganz tief durchatmet, vertraut und loslässt.

Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.

water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

What moved Ted, mashed some delicate glassware in his chest, was the quiet of their interaction, the absence of drama or tears as they gazed at each other, touching gently.

Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float inside each other freely as fish drifting through windows of underwater castles.

I am ALONE AND PEACEFUL and that combination is so unusual, it's like meeting someone for the first time.