Serenity Quotes - Page 5

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything.

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a certain openness, gentleness, innocence, gaiety, and serenity. O, how amiable this simplicity is! Who will give it to me? I leave all for this. It is the pearl of the Gospel.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.