Quotes About Serenity

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith.

People are to be taken in very small doses. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.

Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.

The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life . (Ams Pr Inc June 2004) Originally published 1841.

When I heard the Earth-song / I was no longer brave; / My avarice cooled / Like lust in the chill of the grave.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself

We must go alone. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also.

Lose yourself in nature and find peace

I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.

The pure Buddha, the mind that is clear of attachment, exists anywhere in perfect harmony with all the forces around it.

Perhaps the most appropriate initial step in view of your present predicament is to continue with you daily life in the customary manner with the simple addition of a mantra. Such a mantra can initially be used for 15 minutes in the morning and evening as suggested by Maharishi Mahesh in his program for Transcendental Meditation. You can set up a corner of your room for this purpose.