Quotes About Serenity

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Groan and forget it.

Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still warm waters.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.