Quotes About Serenity

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current swashing along, and counted the stars and drift-logs and rafts that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you.

I allowed silence to accumulate while I got my impressiveness together

Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.

Go to heaven for the climate

As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.

Qué apacible debía de ser, pensó, yacer y dormir y sonar por siempre jamás, con el viento murmurando por entre los árboles y meciendo las flores y las hierbas de la tumba, y no tener ya nunca molestias ni dolores que sufrir.

Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late. You know what I mean–I don't know the words to put it in.

Cuando llegaban es como si hubiese llegado el señor del universo, aportando con él todas las magnificencias de los reinos del mismo; y cuando se marchaban, dejaban tras ellos un sosiego que se parecía mucho al sueño profundo que se produce después de una orgía.

April 10. The sea is a Mediterranean blue; and I believe that that is about the divinest color known to nature.

We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It

and I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real.

moon was sewn into the sky that night. Clouds were stitched around it.

There was also an acknowledgment that there was great beauty in what she was currently witnessing, and she chose not to disturb it.

Clay - who was the quiet one, or the smiler - only turned, one last time, and stared across the sunlit district of statues, crosses, and gravestones. They looked like runners-up trophies. Every last one.

She almost smiles from the pain - from the beauty of it. She's out of herself. Barefoot.

At times, it makes me want to stop and stay. Stay for ever.