Quotes About Serenity

But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still." Martha

If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it's for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won't ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. (#95)

I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

I'll be the cloud and you the moon. I'll cover you with both hands, And our roof will be the sky.

MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.

The blue of the sky longs for the earth's green; the wind between them sighs, "Alas." Day's pain, muffled by its own glare, burns among stars in the night.

He wanted to go out into the open country and fill his lungs with fresh air.

Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust. Let the world find its way to you.

The dust of the dead words clings to thee. Wash thy soul with silence.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

When life sucks the hardest, you survive by finding someplace to sit still and clear your head. Breathe fresh air and lose yourself in life's simple pleasures.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.

I'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains.

When I'm old, I'd like to wake up in the morning and not really do anything - just be happy to exist. I'd like to look at my accomplishments and sit back and revel in my own achievement.