Quotes About Serenity

[A]nd now I might As happy be as earth is beautiful...

Exchange the burden of the world, for the peace of God.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

By all means use some time to be alone.

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.

Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

Balance in everything secures and preserves you and others too; indeed, it also smooths life.

Nature within breath and breath within nature is life.

Nothing to do is itself a great doing.

Patience is a great power and victory of the patient.

Surrender your ego to enjoy peace of mind and the beauty of equality and harmony.

Small white clouds floated in the blue sky above, and on the street a flute vendor was playing the flute - a sharp, soft, sinuous, Oriental tune that twisted and turned in the ear like embroidery, like a picture of a dream in a novel, a trail of white mist coming out from under the bed curtain and unfurling all sorts of images, slowly uncoiling like a lazy snake, till finally the drowsiness is just too great, and even the dream falls asleep.

Still waters run deep.

At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

Live long and well--garden.

I think it is the first proof of a stable mind to be able to pause and spend time with oneself.

All we can do is constantly try to get back in balance.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.

Evocai versi e romanzi come tranquillanti. Forse, pensai, aver studiato mi serve solo a questo: a calmarmi.