Quotes About Serenity

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Make gentle the life of this world.

Or a nacreous sleep among soft particles and charms

If there is no blind hope, there is also no disappointment. If one knows that everything is impermanent, one does not grasp, and if one does not grasp, one will not think in terms of having or lacking, and therefore one lives fully.

"My name is Margalo," said the bird, softly, in a musical voice. "I come from fields once tall with wheat, from pastures deep in fern and thistle; I come from vales of meadowsweet, and I love to whistle."

The greatest power is often simple patience.

We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.

Alas, here is the bigger problem: maybe the reason we North Americans struggle to find makarios in our personal lives is because we don't have a word in our native language to denote it.

Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

The sky settles everything.

How glorious it was! The world of motor-cars and rural Deans receded inimitably. Water, sky, evergreens, a wind— these things not even the seasons can touch, and surely they lie beyond the intrusion of man?

Surfing is good for the soul, worries seems to drift away as you scan the horizon for the next wave.

Don't only fall in love with people, fall in love with nature. Nature has a lot things to shows.

You are as beautiful as waterfall.

The moon, a sliver of white light, rose a hand above the horizon, then, tired, fell back. The purple blackness overhead faded into grey, the grey into pale blue; this was followed quickly by pastel reds and oranges, and finally, yellow rays streamed through the trees as the sun climbed.

Keep an even, normal balance in diet of body, diet of mind, and the use and associations of same in every way; for as a man thinketh in his heart (not as he speaks, but as he thinketh in his heart) so is he. So, keep the body fit, keep the mind fit. Do not allow little antagonisms of body OR mind to undo that thou hast builded in thine experience.

The entity should attempt, - seriously, prayerfully, spiritually, - to see even that as might be called the ridiculous side of every question, - the humor in same. Remember that a good laugh, an arousing even to what might in some be called hilariousness, is good for the body, physically, mentally, and gives the opportunity for greater mental and spiritual awakening.