Quotes About Serenity

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them, there's no use getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them, what's the use in getting upset?

I don't think I get that upset over things.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...

Decide in your heart to be at peace with all men.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

Patience is also a form of action.

Individual Peace paves the way for world peace. The attainment of inner calm is the greatest work you can do for humanity.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Love turns work into rest.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.