Quotes About Serenity

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Amor fati. Love your fate. A friend of mine used to say that. The secret of happiness.

Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitude—because we are always 'doing' things—we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude

Sit in silence and the world is yours.

Recovering alcoholics have an expression: "If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today." With all that's happened, it's been liberating to understand that I don't have to carry the weight of all my disappointments or expectations. Sometimes it just is what it is. I can accept that.

To enjoy happiness, therefore, all our mind need do is to cease all activity, returning calmly to its natural state of inactive being, as it does daily in deep sleep.

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen.

E. Lawrence wrote that "happiness is absorption": I

Sleep is the best meditation." ? Dalai Lama Quote

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

You know, if it weren't for Earth's beauty-the birds-flowers-trees-I would never go back. It's too much trouble.

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.

The world can be hard, full of trickery, Full of deceit, Full of injustice, Full of pain. But there is an emptiness waiting, my friend--a great glowing emptiness, Soft and fragrant with the essence of peace, The essence of serenity. You are almost there, my friend. The magnificent emptiness is the eternal harbor for your soul. Take my hand, friend. Take my hand and take a step, just one more step, And you are there.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

He stood there on the high rampart for a long time that night, listening to the Missouri and staring at the stars. He wondered at the source of the waters, of the mighty Big Horns whose tops he had seen but never touched. He wondered at the stars and the heavens, comforted by their vastness against his own small place in the world. Finally he climbed down from the ramparts and went inside, quickly finding the sleep that had eluded him before.

Peace is found neither in hot blood nor in cold sweat," Nova said.

We sat on the terrace and talked as the sun slipped into the western sea and the stars filled the sky above us.

Green's a good color.

Give love in doses and hope for uselessness.

Expect nothing and appreciate the value of everything; this is the true lesson of the Rule of Acceptance.

He enjoyed using a third of his time to do absolutely nothing.

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Trump believed he would never be proven guilty; therefore, he was innocent. And he carried the total confidence and even serenity of the innocent—or at least of someone who knows how difficult it is to establish the guilt of a person capable of admitting nothing, of never wavering.