Quotes About Serenity

But I think I would have been happier if the only thing that came out of his mouth was the sound of a turning page.

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes" to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No" to the wrong choices made by others.

Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like the spread of glowing water.

She did not smile, but her face had the lovely serenity that can become a smile without transition.

She saw both serenity and suffering in the calm of his face, an expression like a smile of pain, though he was not smiling...He did not look like a man bearing torture now, but like a man who sees that which makes the torture worth bearing.

Elizabeth] Bishop's poetry gave me something that I hadn't found before. A space to breathe.

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

The motto over Chaumont's door read, "Se sta bene non se muove," which a later American tenant translated, overly literally, as "If you stand well, stand still.

Adesso spegniamo la luce e, fino a domattina, niente più dispiaceri. Domani, se ne avremo voglia, ce ne procureremo di nuovi. Va bene?

Si uno busca tranquilidad, silencio y serenidad, que no lo busque en su vida ya que encontrará todo y más en el cementerio.

Make gratitude your brain's default place. It is nearly impossible to feel anything but comfort when you're in a place of gratitude.

calming ability to find good anywhere and a deep sense of peace.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

and let the quiet put things where they're supposed to be

I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and i smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

After I finished, I just laid around in my bed, looking at the ceiling, and I smiled because it was a nice kind of quiet.

In other words, there was no pain. There was no pain anymore.

It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.