Quotes About Serenity

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.

Jedi act with confidence, move with confidence, and breathe with confidence. Jedi possess a confident calmness in their looks, attitude and behaviour.

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.

Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

For ever... well... it droops the mouth. Till I Look up. There's one blue patch no smoke dares touch. Sky, clear, ineffable, alive with light, Always the same... Before, I never knew Rest and green peace.

Nothing is ever gained by allowing anger to have sway. When under its influence we lose the ability to think clearly and the forceful power that is in calmness. -Laura Ingalls Wilder: As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 15, 1921).

How easy and delightful life might be if we could do this, if when we had attained the position we wished we might rest on our oars and watch the ripples on the stream of life.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

We were probably as happy as anyone can be in our world.

Ted, calm down—

I'll out-quiet anybody, in any venue for any stakes.

Attachment is the still water in which the mosquitoes of stress grow."

He's a bad-ass, that Buddha is. Tear your nuts right off.

Don't desire anything except the end of desire.

Just for a moment let your mind be quiet and see how fears evaporate see how desires withdraw like the claws of an animal that's no longer threatened.

Xxx there is a certain kind of peace that you find in the middle of a city when you are the only one on the street, and you can hear your footsteps echo on the dry pavement, xxx

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

I like to look at the skyline and the moon.