Quotes About Serenity

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Where life ends, peace begins!

I love the stars.Because they can't say anything.I love the stars.Because they do not judge anyone.

tension is the opposite of peace - but tension is the brother of silence.

The garden, by its artistry and resonance, touched him deeply, peeling away layers of emotion and inner conflicts.

The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.

For true contentment, one must carry a book at all times.

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

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Downtown L.A. was as quiet as Forest Lawn on most weekends, and he didn't expect to find the Happy Hocker open.

All that matters is not remote from where the Buddha sits.

If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Its whole expanse was covered with tall, juicy grass, and when the wind blew, great waves passed over it with a sound like troubled water. (The Grassy Ocean)

Algunos opinaban que a Beppo Barrendero le faltaba algún tornillo. Lo decían porque ante las preguntas se limitaba a sonreír amablemente y no contestaba. Pensaba. Y cuando creía que una respuesta era innecesaria, se callaba. Pero cuando la creía necesaria, pensaba sobre ella.

Look down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon. —Walt Whitman Sequel to Drum-Taps

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

our home should be an oasis of peace and harmony for us in a troubled world

How can you say that?' said Rudi. 'Just look at him, Karl. Can you not see that he's something special? This one isn't just any old horse. There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there's divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

It's so ... warm and comforting. I'm relieved to be away from Earth. I just want to stay here always. There is no tension, or worries, only a sense of well-being. I'm just floating ... how beautiful

And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.

But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.