Quotes About Serenity

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

The waves of time wash us all clean.

The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

In sound's absence, silence echoes.

A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the days so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past and tomorrow is lived for today

Une gamme en do majeur couvrit la rumeur de la mer.

Ses yeux sont veloutés comme seuls les yeux sombres le sont, or les siens sont d'eau morte et de vase mêlées, rien n'y passe en ce moment qu'une douceur ensommeillée.

She seems to be in a state of what can only be described as unbearable well-being.

toda felicidad me da casi siempre la cordura.

La musique me transporte dans un monde où la douleur ne cesse pas d'exister, mais s'élargit, se tranquillise, devient tout à la fois plus calme et plus profonde, comme un torrent qui se transforme en lac. (p. 81)

Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.

Je m'accordais, chaque soir, un moment de musique qui n'était qu'à moi seul. Certes, ce plaisir solitaire est un plaisir stérile, mais aucun plaisir n'est stérile lorsqu'il remet notre être d'accord avec la vie. (p. 80-81)

La castidad, en la que antaño veía una superstición que debía combatirse, le parecía ahora una de las caras de la serenidad: saboreaba ese frío conocimiento que uno tiene de los seres cuando ya no los desea.

Rimasi meravigliato nell'osservare come fosse piccolo quel viso dal quale veniva tanta luce; seduta così sotto la loggia, la gatta ai piedi sul lembo della veste, sembrava un'immagine da pittura di un genere non ancora inventato.

Correva verso il lago con un volo costante che non pareva corrispondere alla misura del passo umano

of the short journey passed in silence.