Jennifer O'Neill Quotes

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

I'm at peace.

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

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

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

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

I feel very peaceful.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

I am in no rush to get anywhere.

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.

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.

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

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

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

[on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

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

Make peace with what is.

I really love peace and quiet.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.