Quotes About Serenity

La felicidad pertenece a los que bastan a sí mismos.

We, the salt of the earth, should endeavor to follow, by never letting anything disturb us in the pursuit of our intellectual life, however much the storm of the world may invade and agitate our personal environment.

The wise man does not seek pleasure but freedom from care and pain.

Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth.

It will be remembered from the third book that aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for that moment above all willing, above all desires and cares; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.

Recuerda que en tiempos arduos hay que conservar la ecuanimidad, lo mismo que en buenos un ánimo que domina prudentemente la alegría excesiva.» Horacio, Carmina, II, 3]

Remain calm, patient, and good humored.

He remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. (Estha)

La nuit avait les coudes posés sur l'eau où ricochaientles fragiles échardes des étoiles filantes.

Duniya ke mehfilon se ukta gaya hoon ya Rab Kya lutf anjuman ka , jab dil hi bujh gaya ho Shorish se bhagta hoon, dil dhoondta hai mera Aisa sukoot jis pe taqreer bhi fida ho I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone? From the clamour of crowds I flee, my heart seeks The kind of silence that would mesmerize speech itself

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise.

He longed for the river. Because water always helps.

The grass looked wetgreen and pleased. Happy earthworms frolicked purple in the slush. Green nettles nodded. Trees bent.

I reflected as I walked that I had come to Berkshire to find peace, and so far, it had eluded me. But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self. In that case, I might never find it. There was little at peace inside Gabriel Lacey.

Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.

The calm and wisdom of old age are achieved over time.

neither flushed nor pale.

There was silence for a moment.

My wife used to say I was a loner, but I'm not. I just like my time alone," he told me. So when the tour guide said that the Florence Center had single rooms, "I said, 'You must be kidding!'" The tour had only begun and already he was sold.

There would be the light of the snow. And then this incredible crescendo of birds.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.