Quotes About Serenity

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

a certain amount of boredom is...essential to a happy life

A man cannot possibly be at peace with others until he has learned to be at peace with himself.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern

The wise man will try to live unnoticed, so as to have no enemies.

In such a life [of private interests] there is something feverish and confined, in comparison with which the philosophic life is calm and free.

the world would be much happier, if men were as fully able to keep silence as they are to speak.

I loved this time of night, how everything softened and lost the hard edges of day, and how, if the wind moved just right, the live oaks would murmur tender green words across the shadowy lawn. Sitting with a book in the warm circle of light from the table lamp had become my favorite way to end the day.

Patience to wait does not come from suffering long for what we lack but from sitting long in what we have.

The result of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. Isaiah 32:17

I don't resent anything.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

I love silence.

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

Listen to the sound of silence.

My hobby is silence.

When I get by the ocean, that's the only moment that I get that silence and that connection, not with the ocean, but with myself.