Quotes About Serenity

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa. Happiness is never gracious.

What fun it would be, he thought, if one didn't have to think about happiness!

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in living creatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were in repose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless.

Želio bih promatrati more na miru.Od toga se osje?am kao...kao da postajem više ja,ako shva?aš što želim re?i.Više svoj,a ne u potpunosti samo dio ne?ega.Ne samo stanica u tijelu društva.

If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.

If after every tempest come such calms, may the winds blow till they have awakened death.

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them

No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy – to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.

Query: how to combine the belief that the world is a to a great extent illusory with belief that it is none the less essential to improve the illusion? How to be simultaneously dispassionate and not indifferent, serene like an old man and active like a young one?

La visión de aquel rostro transfigurado era a la vez una acusación y un irónico recordatorio de su propio aislamiento. Bernard se sentía ahora tan desdichadamente aislado como cuando había empezado el Servicio; más aislado a causa de su vaciedad no llenada, de su saciedad mortal. Separado y fuera de la armonía, en tanto que los otros se fundían en el Ser Más Grande.

it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words.... I did so. "Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out!" The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

Ogni tanto, nelle giornate di vento, scendeva fino al lago e passava ore a guardarlo, giacché, disegnato sull'acqua, gli pareva di vedere l'inspiegabile spettacolo, lieve, che era stata la sua vita.

Elle pleuvait, sa vie, devant ses yeux, spectacle tranquille.

Tenía consigo la indestructible calma de los hombres que se sienten en su lugar.

e se non c'era profondo mare a prendersela con sé. Sterminato giardino di morti, senza croci né confini. Scivolò via come un'onda, solo più bella delle altre

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle

Hij had de onaantastbare rust over zich van mensen die zich op hun plaats voelen.

Maybe it's that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there's really nothing more to say.