Quotes About Serenity

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.

High on the rosy canyon wall a wren sang out, flute notes falling in a bright cascade of quicksilver semiquavers.

Is this at last the locus Dei? There are enough cathedrals and temples and altars here for a Hindu pantheon of divinities. Each time I look up one of the secretive little side canyons I half expect to see not only the cottonwood tree rising over its tiny spring—the leafy god, the desert's liquid eye—but also a rainbow-colored corona of blazing light, pure spirit, pure being, pure disembodied intelligence, about to speak my name.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we many never need to go there.

What he wanted was peace, order, and the reassurance of human voices.

Simply breathing, in a place like this, arouses the appetite.

Hinton walked blindly toward his truck, unwrapping his candy bar, while the cicada in the field and the frogs in the swampy ditch sang hosannas to the sky. PART TWO

Serenity is for the gods—not becoming in a mortal. Better to be partisan and passionate on this earth; be plenty objective enough when dead.

Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me!Begone, dull Care! Thou and I shall never agree.

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

In a good old age.

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

If there is a paradise on the face of the earth,It is this, oh! it is this, oh! it is this.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy,I don't mind, I think they're crazyRunning everywhere at such a speedTill they find there's no need.Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles awayAnd after all I'm only sleeping.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Happy is he who can forget what cannot be changed.

Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside.

Give peace in our time, O Lord.

Better is a handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay,Watchin' the tide roll away.I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay,Wastin' time.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.