Quotes About Serenity

A gente devia poder parar de estar tão acordado, quando precisasse, e adormecer seguro, salvo.

Lembro que naquela manhã também o calor era menos, e o ar era bondoso.

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

Surrender to the things that can't be changed is one of the keys to peace of mind.

The serenity prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr is a classic. Say it with all your heart and let its wisdom penetrate your mind: God give me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference.

There should always be a precious time together at the end of the working day. Turn off the phone, ignore the door, pour a glass of wine or fruit juice. Shed the world and learn about each other in your own romantic oasis.

She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything.

At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a dark slit between two rocks where maidenhair fern trembled like green lace.

That night the mountain mist came rolling down from the pine forest and lingered far into the morning.

I have to find myself A place where I can breathe. That's where poetry lives In the oldest part of us.

The sense of adventure and curiosity to see what the future holds is the other side of serenity. It, too, is a spiritual state most attractive in people in transition, whether entering adulthood or preparing for death. -Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.

Tiger Lily drifted down underneath herself. This was her one gift more than any other. Silently, she nodded. "Yes. Everything is more than okay.

Still, the flowers were growing right along with them, miniature roses and hydrangea, lavender and peonies, magenta and red and pink and purple flowers. And not just in the garden, but all around, the orchard was bursting with green, and smells, and birds singing until long after dark.

Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.

She would see the sun set behind the mountain and listen for the whip-poor-wills after dark. And she would be right where she needed to be. Perhaps she was home.

Without books, a library was just a quiet room.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

The sky, as if taking a breath, lightens.

The snow fell softly on the street. It muffled sound. It sent people scurrying homeward, so that the street was soon deserted, empty, quiet. And it could have been any street in the city, for the snow laid a delicate film over the sidewalk, over the brick of the tired, old buildings; gently obscuring the grime and the garbage and the ugliness.

The murmur of the limpid stream.

S]he loved more the wild wood-walks, that skirted the mountain; and still more the mountain's stupendous recesses, where the silence and grandeur of solitude impressed a sacred awe upon her heart