Quotes About Serenity

We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

The truly efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

But alone in distant woods or fields, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon.

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

How watchful we must be to keep the crystal well that we were made, clear!—that it be not made turbid by our contact with the world, so that it will not reflect objects. What other liberty is there worth having, if we have not freedom and peace in our minds,—if our inmost and most private man is but a sour and turbid pool? Often we are so jarred by chagrins in dealing with the world, that we cannot reflect.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Os únicos seres felizes no mundo são os que gozam livremente de um vasto horizonte

There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as we passed slowly along, looking back over the country we had traversed, and listening to the evening song of the robin, we could not help contrasting the equanimity of nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crises near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending." - A Walk to Wachusett

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

the natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day

Mi región ofrece gran número de paseos espléndidos; y aunque durante muchos años he caminado prácticamente cada día, y a veces durante varios días, aún no los he agotado. Un panorama completamente nuevo me hace muy feliz, y sigo encontrando uno cada tarde. Dos o tres horas de camino me llevan a una zona tan desconocida como siempre espero. Una granja solitaria que no haya visto antes resulta a veces tan magnífica como los dominios del rey de Dahomey.

Não vejo porque um espírito sereno não possa viver com o mesmo contentamento e com pensamentos alegres num asilo ou um palácio

The wildest sound ever heard makes the woods ring far and wide.

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

Dichoso es el hombre al que cada día se le permite contemplar algo tan puro y sereno como el cielo de poniente a la puesta de Sol, mientras las revoluciones irritan el mundo

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself.

I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up.

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

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

I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy, — nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea, — and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.