Quotes About Serenity

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it — all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary — but love it.

This book is intended for calm readers.

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

I sometimes think that what civilized serenity the British people possess, and small but real ability to smile at themselves, is chiefly due to their good luck in having had William Shakespeare born one of their company.

Peace belongs only to those who will to have it

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

Le silence nous enveloppait toujours. non pas oppressant comme lorsqu'il dit l'absence de vie, mais tout gonflé d'une révélation heureuse qui est sur le point d'être faite.

The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano.

We have a house near East Hampton, and of all the beaches I've been to, I think there is something so beautiful about Long Island beaches. I love them in the fall and winter.

Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.

Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

In a way, I wish none of it had ever happened - Facebook, Twitter - if it had never happened the world would have just carried on serenely. It's utterly redundant and yet we all have to be involved in it somehow.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.