Quotes About Serenity

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

It's better to not overthink and let things happen normally instead.

As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

Extraordinary things happen in solitude.

Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.

To become mindfully aware of our surroundings is to bring our thinking back to our present moment reality and to the possibility of some semblance of serenity in the face of circumstances outside our ability to control.

Sometimes you gotta just chill. You gotta chill your thinking process.

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

Keep your cool, even when those around you can't.

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

Belief is thought at rest.

I've always thought it'd be nice to be seaweed, kind of just floating about.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.

If the mind is calm, your spontaneity and honest thoughts appear. You become more spontaneous.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Every day I yearn to focus more on heaven's beauty and worry less about earth's ugliness.