Quotes About Serenity

she fell asleep listening to the call of the river as it rushed to the sea.

she was playing something so low and soft that it felt as if she were humming it ... notes built and subsided, as if a giant were softly breathing them, as if each note was a drop of water going down a stream filled with rocks.

She had the sea in her blood, and sometimes, if she lay very still at night, with one ear pressed into the mattress, she could even hear the sound of waves. If that wasn't the sign that the sea was in her blood, what could it be?

Il mare è uno splendore indifferente.

The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

Don't take yourself and life so seriously. For, you ought not to do that. I mean, disregard or overlook somethings sometimes.

Strive to live in peace with everyone. For, peace is better off than war or conflict. -Emeasoba George

Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass—which is better than trying to fill them.

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.

Marea e duhovnicul meu.?- ce mult îmi place aceast? fraz? a Elisabetei de Austria!

Sculîndu-m? din pat în toiul nopÅ£ii, primul meu gînd a fost s? m? arunc în mare din înaltul falezei. Dar noaptea era perfect?, ireproÅŸabil?; pur ÅŸi simplu m-a f?cut fericit.

Omul a pierdut simtul marilor taceri, al marilor linisti ce imbata fiinta cu arome de eternitate.

If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!

I draw the curtains, and I wait. Actually, I am not waiting for anything, I am merely making myself absent. Scoured, if only for a few minutes, of the impurities which dim and clog the mind, I accede to a state of consciousness from which the self is evacuated, And I am as soothed as if I were resting outside the universe.

I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end.

at this hour of the morning, I needed no one.

Hacia una sabiduría vegetal: abjuraría de todos mis terrores por la sonrisa de un árbol...

Enjoy that special place.

Don't panic, because everything is probably all right, and it it's not, panicking will make it worse.

There is nothing in the universe but this. I smile. I do not talk to people. I just breathe and stare and exist.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.