Quotes About Serenity

I wish you a calmer sea

she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home.

She's asleep, she can´t be mad in her sleep, can she?

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.

The sun has drowned itself in the sea, said Lucy-Ann at last, as it disappeared.

whose waters were pale yellow, and shone like butter.

herself down on the sand. It was very soft

of the stream water.

No hagas que tu felicidad dependa de lo que no depende de ti

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?

Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.

What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

Don't seek that all that comes about should come about as you wish, but wish that everything that comes about should come about just as it does, and then you'll have a calm and happy life.

Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress.

No one can steal your peace of mind unless you let them.

Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

And the way to be free is to let go of anything that is not within your control.