Quotes About Serenity

Don't think of me too often... Just live well. Just live

My skin grew freckled, my nails bleached, and I began to feel a rare happiness at the simple pleasures of existing here – of walking on a beach, eating unfamiliar foods, swimming in warm, clear water where black fish gazed shyly from under volcanic rocks, or watching the sun sink fiery red into the horizon.

there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea …

They sat in companionable silence, sipping their tea.

I took my place on the bench and we sat in companionable silence for a while.

I thought about a man who moved silently and easily through life, confident that it would always work his way.

Nathan was made of equanimity.

I had never, in my life, imagined I would spend time somewhere like this. Every morning I woke to the sound of the sea breaking gently on the shore, unfamiliar birds calling to each other from the trees.

and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women

I've just learned not to get wound up about things I can't change.

Here, I could hear my thoughts. I could almost hear my heartbeat. I realized, to my surprise, that I quite liked it.

Sometimes I feel I could stay in the woods for ever.' He nodded. 'I often think,' he said, 'that when you're out here at daybreak you can pretend you're the only person in the world.

we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.

I am in a tree, thinking tree thoughts.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Breathe and let be.

they were happy, in the ordinary ways which had evaded them for so long.

Here it is… your moment of Zen.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life

When he had gone, I lay in bed for a long time, listening to the voices of the choir at evensong. Outside, the darkness thickened and grew strange.

No use of getting upset over the way things are..

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

the blue mountain's soft lines were like the dampness glowing in the moss

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.