Serenity Quotes - Page 7

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

A slightly modified version of the Serenity Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the assholes I cannot avoid; The luck to avoid the ones I can; And the self-awareness not to be one myself

Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.'

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy.

I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?

I started using drugs when I was thirteen. By twenty-one, I was shooting up coke and heroin. In my early twenties, I unconsciously used asana to make the "getter" inside me stronger. Sure, I got a hit of the yoga high - serenity at the end of class - but how sustainable is that if you're holding grudges against yourself or others?

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

I would like to be George Clooney - diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.