Quotes About Serenity

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.

There is no necessary connection between the concepts of home and of prettiness; what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistently available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding on to.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

for a time we are relieved of our preoccupations and placed in a wider context that stills the incessant complaints of our egos.

There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

The richest freedom is the power to choose inner peace.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

You cannot afford to allow your happiness to depend on any external situation. You must find the source of your happiness within you. Then nothing in the outside world will be able to remove your peace.

Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.

Don't go to pieces. Go to peace.

The choice for peace creates miracles.

Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.

Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.

The birdsong was so loud that after it had woken you it drove you back to sleep.

like the luminescence of the night above the trees just when a rising moon has touched the treeline.

Nothing is every quiet, except for fools.

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

He who lives well lives well hidden.

Your library is your paradise.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

Most desired form of happiness? 'Contentment

the quest for peace is the ultimate goal of all existence. This peace is not external but internal. It is not about making the world a peaceful place; it is about us being at peace with the world.

To be a good spouse, wife or husband, the wilfulness of Ganga needs to be balanced with the serenity of Shiva. Only then will the river of marriage create fertile riverbanks