Quotes About Serenity

The forests have taught man liberty.

the riverbank. There

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.

It was night now, bright with moon fragment and stars and northern glow.

a flash of silver just below the surface.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

For peace of mind we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

I pray daily... for peace.

By feeling secure in my defenselessness, I am able to be my own person. I behave like a successful member of A.A., like a person who practices the Twelve Steps in all his affairs and has ceased fighting everything and everybody. I literally win by not taking the bait, by not fighting.

A.A. program of recovery is a spiritual way of life which allows alcoholics to live comfortably free from alcohol no matter what is or is not going on in their lives.

Al-Anon members to live life comfortably and emotionally sober no matter what the alcoholic, or anyone else, is doing or not doing.

However, many of us, in spite of respectable lengths of time in recovery, still all too frequently lose our serenity over simple, everyday encounters.

I'm sorry, but for my own serenity, I can't afford to hear the details. I love you. I respect you, and I know you'll make the right decision.

No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety. The seeming pleasure of holding a resentment isn't worth all that.

It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us." I take this to mean that we need to take our eyes off what the other person has done to us and look at what we have done to ourselves.

An attitude of total acceptance and peace of mind doesn't come naturally to me. I must remain diligently on guard to prevent my feelings, thoughts and actions from being controlled by people and circumstances. My serenity, like finely spun glass, is extremely fragile. My natural tendency is to find fault, see the defect, disapprove, then not accept what I see. I completely forget that acceptance does not imply approval.

No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety.

The Big Book says in two places, one of them in italics, that we have ceased fighting anything and anybody.

Like a bridge over troubled waterI will lay me down.

I always get very calm with baseball.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

The sea, the ever renewing sea!

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.