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Quotes About Serenity

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
~ Thom Yorke
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro. (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
~ Thomas a Kempis
Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
~ Thomas a Kempis
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~ Thomas a Kempis
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
~ Thomas a Kempis
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
~ Thomas a Kempis
All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Do not let your peace depend on the words of men. Their thinking well or badly of you does not make you different from what you are. Where are true peace and glory? Are they not in Me? He who neither cares to please men nor fears to displease them will enjoy great peace, for all unrest and distraction of the senses arise out of disorderly love and vain fear.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The more humble a man is in himself, and the more obedient towards God, the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace.
~ Thomas a Kempis
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Grant to me a humble and quiet spirit, one that is never uncontrolled or garrulous.
~ Thomas a Kempis
But let us lay the axe to the very root of our life, that, being cleansed from affections, we may possess our souls in peace.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.
~ Thomas a Kempis