Serenity Quotes - Page 4

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

What moments divine , what rapture serene.

Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.