Quotes about Serenity

I came here searching for something, Dad. I didn't find what I'd expected, but I found what I needed: peace. I needed peace.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wing breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.

The soul is like a bowl of water, with the soul's impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it — though of course it is not.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power

If you make peace with all things that are beyond your power, refusing to fight them, you will be invincible.

Where are you going to find serenity and independence — in something free, or something enslaved?

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.