Quotes About Serenity

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

FerecaÈ›i luna Într-un coÈ™ cu flori!

Porridge. Coffee. A whole day of reading ahead of me. Things could be worse. I already have the sleepy feeling I get when I'm reading a good book: like I want to curl up in bed with it and forget about the nonfictional world.

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

First off, make sure you won't be interrupted during your religious (or magical) rite. If you're at home, tell your family that you'll be busy and aren't to be disturbed. If alone, take the phone off the hook, lock the doors, and pull the blinds, if you wish. It's best if you can ensure that you will be alone and undisturbed for some time.

They sat in companionable silence for a few moments after that, while the sun settled into its downward arc in the west and long shadows began to creep across the face of the city.

Q: What did one ocean say to the other ocean? A: Nothing. They just waved.

Heaven looked like a lonely place. And

whisper of a smile

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

To watch the sun sink behind a flower clad hill. To wander on in a huge forest without thought of return. To stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands. To contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds. And, subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.

The end of art is peace.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

I really enjoy spending time at home.

I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.