Quotes About Serenity

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can tell the stillness in my heart. Peach blossoms drift streamwater away deep in mystery. I live in the other world one that lies beyond the human.

Chúng ta mu?n s?ng yên ?n, không thích xáo tr?n, nh?ng r?t thích thú nghe nói v? các s? xáo tr?n c?a k? khác. Chúng ta dành nhi?u gi? ?? bàn cãi sôi n?i v? ng??i này, ng??i n?, chê bai ông này, gi?u c?t bà kia. Ph?i ch?ng chúng

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light.

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…" (p. 141).

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.

It's a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether they talk or stay silent. You never get tired of watching it. And no matter how rough the waves get, you're never bothered by the noise the water makes by the commotion of the surface - it never seems too loud, or too wild.

Now only the kitchen and I are left. It's just a little nicer than being all alone.

That's because you think about everything in words ... You can go around and around the same question all you like, and never find an answer. I know that's how you cope, how you get through time, so I've never thought it was immature, or unhelpful. But there's another way of doing it: to sit with an empty space, and just look at it, without thinking anything, just enduring. Some people can do that.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place. I

My fury was lofty, pure, cool.

Suspended in the dim light before the window overlooking the magnificent tenth-floor view, the plants breathed softly, resting. By now the rain had stopped, and the atmosphere, sparkling, replete with moisture, refracted the glittering night splendidly.

The night was so deathly silent that I felt I could hear the sound of the stars moving across the heavens.

I realized that I'd never appreciated how peaceful and precious my life had been before.

There she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.

Ich war glücklich. Nicht, dass ich high gewesen wäre. High zu sein ist immer nur ein partieller Zustand, für den man später die Rechnung bekommt. Eines Nachts, wie aus heiterem Himmel, holt einen der Teil, den man hinter sich gelassen zu haben glaubte, dann um so nachdrücklicher wieder ein. Mein Zustand dagegen kam den Ausdruck der "inneren Ruhe" näher.

I silently implored: May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm bright place, drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit.

Pregai che il ricordo di questo momento in cui prendevamo un tè delizioso e bollente seduti l'uno di fronte all'altro in un posto piacevole e caldo restasse in lui come una scia luminosa e lo aiutasse. Le parole sono sempre troppo crude e finiscono con lo spegnere luci preziose e fievoli come quella.

After I hung up, the quiet of the room took shape and pressed in on me. The room was soon full of the pale blue of early dawn.

pensé en silencio.

It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.