Quotes About Serenity

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

I have been to Golden Temple couple of times now. I feel calm and at peace when I am there. It's a very special place for me because I have a lot of childhood memories with my family there.

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

I don't know why I bring that calmness, and I'm not really aware of it, to be honest. I just come on, smile, and enjoy the moment. If that brings calmness, then great.

Balance is good. You should always have balance... you need it to survive.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

For the dead there are no more toils.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

There is more glory in peace than in war

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .

For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.

You might not notice the moon very much. White and silent, it shines a cold light that is merely a ghost of the beloved day.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.

I wish I could be built so that stupidity and dullness wouldn't bother me as much, but I just can't help it. It may sound paradoxical, but with time one wishes to be a hermit instead of always being around people. - Doctor Doris Maza

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

I must find peace in the only place possible in India. Within.

I figure that if I can find peace in death, then perhaps I can find peace and a sense of grace in life.