Quotes About Serenity

leaned back in the rocker and set it in motion gently, still smiling at him. "She

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others

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.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion.

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

The room was bright and white and still and silent, but soundless sound roared and howled in it.

Fireflies winked, and the darkening bay breathed and sighed like a great dolphin and the thin pure curve of a young moon hung in the green sky...

and the afternoon flowed on into lavender evening.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

1. What makes you hate yourself? 2. Where do those things occur least? 3. What makes you feel inspired, serene, amused, excited (in a good way), unself-conscious, passionate, compassionate, and more or less at home? 4. Where are those things?

Time softened on Sundays; it stretched itself out in vast rubbery lengths, and by two o'clock, there was more of it than would ever be needed for anything. There

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name... and they say golf is a quiet game

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp; but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.