Quotes About Serenity

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. —EPICTETUS

For Buddha, attachments are like a game of roulette in which someone else spins the wheel and the game is rigged: The more you play, the more you lose. The only way to win is to step away from the table. And the only way to step away, to make yourself not react to the ups and downs of life, is to meditate and tame the mind. Although you give up the pleasures of winning, you also give up the larger pains of losing.

acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns.

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. —EPICTETUS2

What if food really was love and world peace could be a reality?

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you

But take away the violence and you didn't have serenity. What remained were what psychiatrists labeled the negative symptoms of psychosis: apathy, flat mood, deadened voice, blunted movement, impoverished thinking, language stripped of nuance and humor. An existence devoid of surprise and joy.

bosh," he finally said. "Ook-la. Palm trees

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

Sleep. The ultimate resistance

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.

Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm.

She gathered the cat up in her arms and held it to her chest as if it was the most precious thing in the world.

I'm finding I don't have to fill things up," said Alice, immediately to my left. "You can have empty space around you. You can have free time. I'm finding that the less I do, the better I like it.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

A warm feeling filled me. It was made of tea and biscuits and sudden gratitude.

Peace and quiet. That's one thing to be said for deserts. They give you a chance to get away from the everyday pressures of life. And when those everyday pressures consist of seven furious djinn and one apperplectic master magician, a few hindered thousand square miles of sand, rock, wind, and desolation is exactly what you need.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

She straightened, looked at Albert. There was a touch of that old serenity about him, the calmness he exuded despite it all.

N]o one ever eats an ice-cream cone at a funeral, or a fire. The Red Cross doesn't drop ice-cream cones into third-world countries. If you're eating an ice-cream cone, it's just very hard to believe things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.

La velocidad tiene sus cosas buenas y también sus desventajas. Por un lado, la inmediatez de poder ser localizado desde la otra punta del mundo nos conecta a este, pero a la vez también nos genera un plus de ansiedad. Ya no tenemos la serenidad ni la paz de que disponíamos antes. Confundimos el hecho de tener amigos en redes sociales como el Facebook, donde te agregan con un solo clic, con la profundidad de las relaciones que exigen tiempo y experiencias compartidas.

Los síntomas de la verdadera felicidad son la paz interior —en medio de las dificultades, los reveses de fortuna o las privaciones más elementales—, el gozo, la serenidad, la armonía con uno mismo, el equilibrio... La felicidad significa ir progresando al máximo a nivel personal.