David Levithan Quotes

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

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

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

I am where I am and it's ok.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

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

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

Peace is first of all the art of being.