Quotes About Serenity

When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.

She was like a green meadow after spring rains, as fragrant as the flowers in bloom waving against the horizon and waves of fresh grass rustling.

sleeping sprawled out on the bed

Tranquility is achieved when you are in harmony with all beings and all situations, knowing that everything is precisely the way it is meant to be.

am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer. But, after all, it is still best to concern oneself with eternals, for from them alone flows that spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans - Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.

All in all, the moon is a truer mirror for my soul than the sun that looks the same way every day.

I coped by finding a space where I could just…breathe.

Real intelligence is like a river; the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

quiet meant you could hear the gulls, the cormorants, the wind, and the waves. Those things brought him calm.

gentle curves that had not been

Here in the garden, she found an unexpected peace.

listening to the stir of the trees, the chatter of birds as they flew in and out, the bubble of the fountain. This was an enchanted spot, justification in and of itself for the price of the townhouse. Casey might not know viburnum from vinca, but she knew that city gardens didn't get better than this.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. —KAHLIL GIBRAN

Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the unexpected, the irrelevant, the odd and the unexplainable.

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

It's so good for you to think of nothing. I wish you could do it more often.

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

To say that someone is tranquil doesn't, after all, imply contentment, only perhaps a peaceful acceptance of or yielding to an unhappy fate.

One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.