Francois Fenelon Quotes

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

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

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

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

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

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

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

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

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.

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

Peace begins When expectation ends.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

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.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

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