- “Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.” ― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
- Serenity: When you stop expecting and start accepting. Maxime Lagacé
- Ataraxia: Ancient greek for ‘serenity of the soul’, especially needed around politics, mortality and disgrace, achieved via philosophy. Alain de Botton
- “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- Peace is the simplicity of heart, the serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love. Pio of Pietrelcina
- “If you put a spoonful of saltin a cup of waterit tastes very salty.If you put a spoonful of saltin a lake of fresh waterthe taste is still pure and clear.Peace comes when our hearts areopen like the sky,vast as the ocean.” ― Jack Kornfield, The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace
- “None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.” ― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking
- Accept the success. Why should it be otherwise? Accept the suffering. Why should it be otherwise? Accept the love. Why should it be otherwise? Accept the loss. Why should it be otherwise? Accept the joy. Why should it be otherwise? Accept the end. Why should it be otherwise? @TheStoicEmperor
- Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed. Reinhold Niebuhr
- “Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
- “Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “The poses are learnt in Yoga Practice. Calmness and serenity is learnt in Meditation. Through this learning process, the journey of life full of love, compassion, kindness, gratitude is unlocked.” ― Purvi Raniga
- “I love the tranquility, serenity, generosity, and the beauty of the ocean.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “But walking causes absorption. Walking interminably, taking in through your pores the height of the mountains when you are confronting them at length, breathing in the shape of the hills for hours at a time during a slow descent. The body becomes steeped in the earth it treads. And thus, gradually, it stops being in the landscape: it becomes the landscape. That doesn’t have to mean dissolution, as if the walker were fading away to become a mere inflection, a footnote. It’s more a flashing moment: sudden flame, time catching fire. And here, the feeling of eternity is all at once that vibration between presences. Eternity, here, in a spark.” ― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking
- “He did not want to be young again — that time had had particular and transcendent horrors — but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.” ― Penelope Lively, Passing On
- Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. Naguib Mahfouz
- “Sometimes you just have to find something to keep your body grounded, your mind flexible, and your heart open.” ― Imania Margria
- There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have. Otherwise you would be experiencing bliss. Anthony de Mello (Awareness)
- Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh (Peace Is Every Step)
- Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig. Anthony de Mello
- “The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.” ― Steve Goodier
- “It is conducive to serenity to see the vast majority of people as the children they are spiritually and intellectually.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Trust is knowing that no matter what happens, you will be better off than you were in the beginning. Iyanla Vanzant
- “I don’t wanna leave this Earth taking more than I gave.” ― Kierra C.T. Banks
- Everything I desire is within me. Deepak Chopra
- Let them win the argument. Even better, don’t argue in the first place. Don’t try to convince anyone. People who have already made up their mind won’t be dissuaded from it. The rare few who’re open and receptive don’t require effort to be persuaded of a more valid point of view. @TheAncientSage
- Inner peace and contentment depend in large measure upon whether or not the historical family which is inherent in the individual can be harmonized with the ephemeral conditions of the present. Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)
- We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Swami Satchidananda