Quotes About Serenity

After a while, even the most beautiful scenery threatens to become moving wallpaper—background—but other times, it all seems to come together: the work, the play, all the places I've been, where I am now, a happy, stupid, wonderful confluence of events.

There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.

In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.

When last days are coming, they should be allowed to come and to glide away without special notice or mention. And as for last moments, there should be none such. Let them ever be ended, even before their presence has been acknowledged.

But, as I have said, Alice had become quite comfortable at Matching Priory. Perhaps she was already growing upwards towards the light.

The evening was warm, and almost transparent in its clearness, and very quiet.

CHAPTER XI FROM IMPINGTON GORSE

Leigh says that colors are the smiles of nature." "Imagine

Se un giorno muoio – si disse – voglio che il cielo sia come in questo istante.

Nobody can live a continuous lie and find serenity.

You need only to identify the relationships, places, memories, activities, book passages, and so on, that have that kind of power for you, and then remember to search them out when you feel war rising within you. When you've accessed such a place—an internal vantage point where peace remains—you can begin to ponder your challenges anew.

What are you into, anyway?" "Solitude.

Tennyson. You know: 'Eating the lotus day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of' … something, something.... You get the point.

Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

Beyond gravity, some of that freedom was regained; with the loss of weight went many of the cares and worries of Earth. Heywood

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.

Well, what are we to do now? asked MacDonald with some gruffness. Possess our souls in patience and make as little noise as possible, Holmes answered.

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.

There's no place like home, especially if it's Serenity, South Carolina.

I did not dance again but once, and that with Savona, who insisted that I join Shevraeth and Elenet in a set. Despite his joking remarks from time to time, the Marquis seemed more absent than merry, and Elenet moved, as always, with impervious serenity and reserve. Afterward the four of us went our ways, for Shevraeth did not dance again with Elenet. I know, because I watched.

Stillness A cock crows and someone Strums a koto. Nothing's wanting. In the midst of this stillness, I'm still. Could I catch it, I'd drop That butterfly into my mouth.