Quotes About Serenity

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Vem sentar-te comigo, Lídia, à beira do rio. Sossegadamente, fitemos o seu curso e aprendamos Que a vida passa, e não estamos de mãos enlaçadas. Enlacemos as mãos...

Todo lo que ha estado pasando y todo lo que viene es un puente largo para llegar a tu propia paz, a esta mujer que va a quitarte de encima la necesidad de resolverlo todo a tu manera y por tu cuenta

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

I'll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won't rain.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

I'm merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.

A pillow for thee will I bring, Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

Many voices from the world in which we live tell us we should live at a frantic pace. There is always more to do and more to accomplish. Yet deep inside each of us is a need to have a place of refuge where peace and serenity prevail, a place where we can reset, regroup, and reenergize to prepare for future pressures. The ideal place for that peace is within the walls of our own homes, where we have done all we can to make the Lord Jesus Christ the centerpiece.

There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.

Those whose happiness is within, whose peace is within, whose light is within—that person becomes free.

The mind which has attained wisdom and peace becomes a mirror of all creation.

Happiness in life is the result of accepting everything just the way it is. Serenity is achieved when one no longer wishes for "something else.

And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face.

F]or there are times when bed is the only place on earth where peace is to be had, and that was one of them.

The quiet troubling of the river, and the clean, washed stones, and the green all about, and the trees trying to drown their shadows, and the mountain going up and up behind, there is beautiful it was.

Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)

Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We'd parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to it splashing across rocks and stones; a lovely sound.

If I could die now, he thought; peacefully, gently, without a tremor or a crying out. If I could be with her. If I could believe I would be with her. His

Fresh air, quiet, and the calming stimulus of the movement on the earth beneath the sky; that's why she loves to walk so much.

An old man, I want only peace. The things of this world mean nothing. I know no good way to live and I can't stop getting lost in my thoughts, my ancient forests. The wind that waves the pines loosens my belt. The mountain moon lights me as I play my lute.

He stayed inside his perfect silence, hung on the stopped, forward edge of nowhere