Quotes About Serenity

Today, I will exchange a controlled life for one that is manageable.

Not two things at once, but one thing done in peace.

The busier and more hectic your life is, the greater the need to meditate. The more you meditate, the calmer and quieter your life is because you're quieter and calmer.

Make life easier for you.

Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

Seek balance in your life. Learn when it's time to let go, and learn when it's time to act.

Today, I will strive for balance.

Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

There was nothing we could do to stop whatever was going on, and there was no point in trying to imagine what was being done. I come from farm folk, Herald. We know when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some.

Here and there a thin beam of light threaded the warm brooding dusk and was filled with slowly moving motes like an attenuate firmament of stars revolving in grave order.

waar de weelde zich met welbehagen in het ordelijke spiegelt (...)

Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.

have you not had your morning glass of shut up?

Being with him was like being alone underwater -- everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed.

Toda la infelicidad humana tiene un mismo origen: no saber estar tranquilamente sin hacer nada en una habitación.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room. —Blaise Pascal

Benditos sean los que no esperan nada, porque disfrutarán de todo».

Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

So, with no real plan for my future and content to let fate

In brief, I consider solitude so necessary to happiness

When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of things in the kitchen dimmed until nothing remained of them but lighter and darker shades of gray, I was completely happy.