Quotes About Serenity

Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Sometimes, silence is loud.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Between towering beeches, like ice cliffs, the lake glittered in the moonlight, arctic white along the frozen edges, but with a dark badger stripe of flowing water down the centre.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Even before I learned what I was, books were my escape from the world. This place . . . bookstores, libraries . . . they're the closest thing I have to a church.

To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.

But what I like most to do is lie down in the early evening, just for half an hour anywhere I am, and listen to all the sounds I can hear. As if I were listening to music. And being attentive to things very far and very present, and when you hear voices and they're speaking a language you don't understand, it's really beautiful. I love that.

No hay zarzas ardientes ni voces ensordecedoras que vienen del monte Sinaí en el examen. Dios aparece en el tranquilo susurro de nuestros recuerdos, pensamientos y sentimientos guiados por el Espíritu. ¡Qué realidad tan maravillosa!

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

make this day a tree leaning over the river eternity and fuss about in its branches.

The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever—Jacques Yves Cousteau The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I breath in and out through my mouth to feel the quiet. In. Out. Over and over. Until I fall asleep.

I do what I always do. I go outside to get some air. Seems like I'm always trying to get some air.

It's not that I want a tragic life. I'm lucky I have nothing to worry about. Nothing. And that is what I feel.