Judith Guest Quotes

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

You have to make peace with life.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Accept everything just the way it is.

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

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

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.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

I'm at peace.

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

Surrender is working with what happens.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.