Quotes About Serenity

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just stop caring.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Patience is the best medicine.

Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .

You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

How we stay in the middle between indulging and repressing is by acknowledging whatever arises without judgment, letting the thoughts simply dissolve, and then going back to the openness of this very moment.

As swans swim on the lake and vultures roam in the charnel ground, you can let your mind rest in its natural state.

Looking for alternatives is the only thing that keeps us from realizing that we're already in a sacred world. Looking for alternatives—better sights than we see, better sounds than we hear, a better mind than we have—keeps us from realizing that we could stand with pride in the middle of our life and realize it's a sacred mandala.