Quotes About Serenity

even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone." ? Edith Wharton

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

There is no greater pleasure than to lie between clean sheets, listen to music, and read under a strong light.

It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

moonlight in Mayo" time.

Her eyes opened. They were like petals submerged in tiny bowls of unchanged water.

I was never less alone than when by myself. Edward Gibbon

The clam of peace and prosperity was once more experienced in the provinces;

He walked quite contentedly, therefore, unaware that he was an undesirable.

David listened to the swishing sound his yellow slippers made as he walked up the last flight of steps to the door that led from the terrace into the drawing room. Yvette had not yet opened the curtains, which saved him the trouble of closing them again. He liked the drawing room to look dim and valuable.

God grant us the courage to change those things we can, the serenity to accept the things we can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Nothing can have so prevalent a power to still the agitation of passion in the breast, nothing is so fit to induce a smooth and easy flow, and a constant evenness of temper, as a frequent application to the throne of grace.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

I would like to stay like this, lazy, warm, in the silence where only our regular breathing can be heard, without ever having to make gestures, speak words which sell us out and betray us; this moment is real and alive, I stretch it into eternity...

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.

I'm in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs, Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don't know how to hurry.

She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before, I go on like before, alone in the field. It's like my head had been lowered, And if I think this, and raise my head And the golden sun dries the need to cry I can't stop having. How vast the field and interior love... ! I look, and I forget, like dryness where there was water and trees losing their leaves.

O mundo não se fez para pensarnos nele (pensar é estar doente dos olhos) mas para olharmos para ele e estarmos de acordo...

Let's be simple and calm, Like brooks and trees, And God will love us by making Beautiful things like the trees and brooks for us, And give us greenness in his spring, And a river for us to go to when we end...