Quotes About Serenity

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in

I love a broad margin to my life.

So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.

There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

How silent are the footsteps of Spring!

Alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself. I once more feel myself grandly related. This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon—said Damodara

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

No very black melencholy can come to he who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.....

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth.