Charles Dickens Quotes

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

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

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

I don't complain when it's sunny.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

If you are a very ordinary human being, nothing affects you, nothing bothers you, and nothing troubles you. That's how I live my life.

I am where I am and it's ok.

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Accept everything just the way it is.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the tongue spring goes into the mud I stay like this not thirsty any more the tongue goes back into the mouth it closes it has to make a straight line now it's done I've made the image.

You might say that death has relaxed me.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.