Quotes About Serenity

I'd say the best scents are ones that don't overtake a room. I love things that remind me of the outdoors and home.

I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

Human beings needed to slow down. We had been living a life full of hustle.

I have never felt the need to get agitated or hyper about anything in life.

I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.

I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

I have no ill will about anything.

I have a certain image that's more classic, and I'm happy to stay out of the fray.

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind. 

Eppure la lentezza -a differenza dell'ozio, che richiede doti agonistiche- ha ancora il suo fascino.

Non si puo' essere sempre moderni, impeccabili e aggiornati. L'ultimo grido e' interessante. Ma non occorre sempre gridare. Qualche volta e' meglio abbassare la voce, e limitarsi a parlare.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

On ne demande pas à une mouette apprivoisée pourquoi elle éprouve le besoin de disparaître de temps en temps vers la pleine mer. Elle y va, c'est tout, et c'est aussi simple qu'un rayon de soleil, aussi normal que le bleu du ciel.

I spend my time reading, sleeping, eating. The good, quiet life, with nothing to do. And little by little the water tank fills up.