Quotes About Serenity

Un hecho es algo que no se puede cambiar. Tu edad es un hecho. El tamaño del mundo es un hecho. Hay ciertas cosas que simplemente existen. Una de las claves de la felicidad es que nunca te enojes o te alteres por un hecho. Simplemente los aceptas y sigues con tu vida.

And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

Of late the nights are dawning plum-blossom white.

Whatever happens is the best thing that could happen.

Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are.

I use the word to mean a natural state of peace and clarity.

Transcendental Meditation

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

there was no anger in his voice,no disappointment even.

The vista from atop the poinciana was timeless and serene—a long string of egrets crossing the distant 'glades; a squadron of white pelicans circling a nearby bay; a pair of ospreys hovering kitelike above a tidal creek. It was a perfect picture and a perfect silence.

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Solo el silencio es grandioso; todo lo demás es debilidad. ALFRED DE VIGNY

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say I will be smiling forever.

Oh, God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us. It's so quiet here, now.

Love turns work into rest.

There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not.

The highlander seemed to float through life very much the same as a cloud in an empty sky, touching nothing, leaving no trace of his passing.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

It was a sound as soft as the first drop of rain on a century of dust.