Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Being OK means you're not sad, and you're not incredibly happy. You're content. You're OK. And that's the ideal place to be, to be able to say, 'I'm OK.'

Be it high or low, it doesn't matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace.

If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves not only being physically at ease. If you are nagged by worry or seething with anger, you’re not really relaxed. The key to relaxation is peace of mind. The relaxation gained from alcohol, drugs or just listening to music may seem attractive, but it doesn’t last.