Quotes About Serenity

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.

It was that time of the night when most of the drunks were already home in bed. The crickets were done chirping, and the birds weren't ready to herald sunrise.

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Nella chiara mattina domenicale camminavo lungo Olive Street. La città sembrava deserta, la strada era tranquilla. Mi fermai ad ascoltare. Sentivo qualcosa. Era il suono della felicità. Era il mio cuore che batteva dolcemente, ritmicamente. Un orologio, ecco cosa era, un piccolo congegno della felicità.

There was nothing he could do about it, so there was no point worrying about it.

Patience is the best medicine.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

His astonishing constancy during these trials, and serenity of countenance while under such excruciating torments, gave the spectators so exalted an idea of the dignity and truth of the christian religion, that many became converts upon the occasion,

with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...

my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things—sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains.…

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she'd decided to wrap around her shoulders.

Let the world wag, and take mine ease in mine inn.

But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.

O holy simplicity!

Snow falling in the woods when there's no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.

To one who has been long in city pent,'Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.