Laurel Lea Quotes

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

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

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.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

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.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

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

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

You have to make peace with life.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

True humility is contentment.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.