Quotes About Serenity

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.

Jesse rounded forward under the towel and cozied his feet in the bath water. It was as if no one else were around and Jesse was once again alone and at ease with his meditations. He said, "I can't figure it out: do you want to be like me, or do you want to be me?

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

She walks in beauty.

Spend a long time alone, especially if you're someone who's never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.

The next time you have a thought . . . let it go.

Let there be music in our hearts.. let colors find their own way on their chosen paths.. Let there be freedom.. Let there be peace in the World..

Nature's serenity is there for us to see, hear and feel in the majesty of the mountains, the vastness of the sea, the whisper of the whistling wind, the incredible scent-of-a-quenched-happy-earth after rain.. it makes my heart glow with a happiness unparalleled by any other joy… sends my tired senses into a meditative trance.. the earth is a kaleidoscope of dreamscapes.

The most beautiful silence can be heard in the symphonies of nature.. And when the best in the human being embraces in passion this silence - we rejoice in the eternal symphony of soul and silence..

The truth lies not in the mind but in the soul because the mind wavers but the soul is constant.

Trees are like true love..everlasting..

And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself.

Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual as sensuous, like wearing silk, or swimming without a bathing suit, or walking along a totally empty beach with the sun on your back. One was restored by solitude. Refreshed.

When I creep into our bed, there is the joy and relief of a person entering a secret dimension. Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love. Still, quite often

Father Damien maintained a neutral, kind, meditative watchfulness that had in it no hint of impatience.

Dawn was sad, calm, and brimming with debt.

Life had sprung up along the trail. The thin film of green in the trees had become a cloud of new leaves. Robins, bluebirds, vireos, finches, songbirds of all types made the brush along the trail a wall of sharp melody.

He wasn't meek, but he was in his person deeply resigned to what he did. It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of

When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me.

At a certain age, especially after certain hardships, you only want one thing: to be left alone! ...or better still, you'd like people to think you're dead! in a recent poll on 'what the young people think', they all thought I was dead... died in the Greenland! Not bad!

C'est bon les villes inconnues ! C'est le moment et l'endroit où on peut supposer que les gens qu'on rencontre sont tous gentils. C'est le moment du rêve. On peut profiter que c'est le rêve pour aller perdre quelque temps au jardin public.