Quotes About Serenity

But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

Una tarde de domingo es inconfundible.

Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!

If he could just get rid of the harsh irritation of his conscious thinking, then he would be all right; then he would be at peace

This tree wishes you no harm. Go around it in peace. You are hurting yourself.

La paz les dejo, la paz mía les doy: no se la doy yo, como la da el mundo. No se turbe su corazón, ni se acobarde.

looks out at a wave breaking like a white pencil being drawn across a blue piece of paper.

greet the day gently and with utmost care.

Like the residents of Brigadoon, the people in the church drifted in a long and dreamless sleep, freed of struggle and expectation.

After a summer as jam-packed with incident as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the fall and winter of 1967 passed with placid serenity on the island of Anguilla, as free from action as a Saul Bellow novel.

After three weeks of constant bobbing and weaving, constant trouble, constant worry, my final week in Guerrera would be calm and serene.

Two solid weeks of beautiful weather. Clear sunny days, low humidity, temperature in the seventies, air so brisk and clean you could read E PLURIBUS UNUM on a dime across the street. Clear cloudless nights, temperature in the fifties, the sky a great soft raven's breast, an immense bowl of octopus ink salted with a million hard white crystalline stars and garnished with a huge moon pulsing with white light. It was disgusting.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

Happiness is a good flow of life.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way