Quotes About Serenity

Contempla il corso degli astri52 immaginando di ruotare con loro e pensa come gli elementi si trasformano continuamente gli uni negli altri. Il pensiero di queste cose, infatti, purifica dalle brutture della vita terrena.

Budi poput krševite obale o koju se neprestance lome valovi. Ona stoji postojano, a oko nje uzavrele vode polako se smiruju.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

If you have a library in your garden, everything will be complete.

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference between lie and lay . Lay is always passive.

She longs for tonight, she longs to skip the day that's just begun and plunge headlong into the night as if into a pool; a pool with the moon reflected in it. She longs to swim in liquid moonlight.

She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.

The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still.

Roz added sheep to Heaven. They would be outside the window, naturally.

I prefer to be upright and contained -- an urn in daylight.

I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.

The line of her cheek has a marble, a classic, a simplicity; to look at her is to believe that suffering does indeed purify.

And it's late at night: a cloudless night, as I observed while walking here. The full moon is out, casting her equivocal corpse-glow over all.

Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.

It was not the lifting up of her heart to God that brought this balm, for religion went no more than lip deep with her. It was the sight of her mother's serene face upturned to the throne of God and His saints and angels, praying for blessings on those whom she loved. When Ellen intervened with Heaven, Scarlett felt certain that Heaven heard. Ellen

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.