Quotes About Serenity

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Giuro davanti a Dio che non toccherò mai più né i fiori, né le piante, né le lucertole.

O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when we sat quietly . . . midst all these books.

Never did we plan the morrow, for we had learned that in the wilderness some new and irresistible distraction is sure to turn up each day before breakfast. Like the river, we were free to wander.

never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.

There is a peculiar virtue in the music of elusive birds.

Para vivir como vivo, mucho mejor fuera irme a Buenos Aires. pero es ésta la cuestión: me gustaría ir a Bs. As. el día en que un no como el de B. esta tarde se estrelle contra mi serenidad. O sea, remontar el infierno de las relaciones violentas y trágicas con los demás. Pero tal vez será así toda mi vida. Seguro que será así mientras me hago ilusiones sobre una presunta madurez y una presunta serenidad.

Labios plegados sobre dientes felices.

Todo hace el amor con el silencio.

The water is your friend. You don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move.

It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.

i want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

The only place where you can regain lost paradises is in yourself

Rest doesn't just magically appear when we need it,

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness. —J. R. SEELEY

The supreme quality of great men is the power of resting. Anxiety, restlessness, fretting are marks of weakness.

The quiet around her seems to make the focus of her prettiness sharper, the air's stillness focuses her in the eye. As if talking might make it harder to see someone.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.