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Quotes About Serenity

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.
~ Wei Wu Wei
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.
~ Maria Shriver
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
~ Alistair Cooke
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
~ Bruce Lee
The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.
~ Swami Parthasarathy
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
~ Isak Dinesen
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
~ Albert Camus
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
~ George Santayana
If you are centered, you can move freely.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.
~ Douglas Pagels
It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.
~ Charles Goodnight
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.
~ Jean Vanier
The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.
~ Richard Davidson
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
~ Anais Nin
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.
~ Gautama Buddha
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
~ Franz Liszt
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
~ Cyril Connolly
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~ Willa Cather