Quotes About Serenity

There was a beauty to quiet collective activity that she would never take for granted.

If you have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden

Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.

Quietly forgiving and moving on is a gift to God ~ and yourself.

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence

A private life is a happy life.

Everything happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

The only successful substitute for brains is silence.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Don't go searching for the Dhamma outside, for it lies within. Peace lies within, but we have to contemplate so that we're aware all around—subtly, deep down.

The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

And many a brimming water-urn. Tall trees their hallowed branches spread, Laden with pleasant fruit, o'erhead;

Association with the wise, abandonment of latent impressions, self-enquiry, control of breathing — these are the means of conquering the mind.

Seek beauty in simplicity, not in complexity.

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

sometime when your life is so good, you'll want to make your happiness as simple as possible.

Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's.

The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.