Quotes About Serenity

An invulnerable armor is patience.

La paz en sí, inmutable y eterna, es una constante en la vida. La ira fugaz, es un lapso momentáneo, cuando uno pierde la voluntad.

The appeal of the islands was simple: sun, sea, and sand; surcease from the strain of life in crowded and ugly and violent cities on the American mainland; the illusion that the world was clean and harmless.

Almost Beyond: She laid on my chest & her breathing filled me almost to beyond what I could hold.

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

special?" "No, just

silent. This was

This is called a bubble meditation, but you can use a word instead, focusing your mind on that word. If your mind wanders, gently and without judgment bring your attention back to the word. The word you choose can be a neutral word, like the number one. Or it can be a Sanskrit

Todo debe estar equilibrado. La naturaleza está equilibrada. Los animales viven en armonía. Los humanos no han aprendido a hacerlo.

We are like the mountain. We do not have to let outside events rob us of our joy and harmony, no matter how strongly the storms rage, no matter how loudly the winds howl. We all have that inner core of calm and quiet. It is there whenever we want or need it. By going inward, we can access its powerful healing presence. The mountain, inside, is perfect—and so are we.

Nosotros somos como la montaña. No hemos de dejar que sucesos de fuera nos quiten la dicha ni la armonía, al margen de lo fuerte que bramen las tormentas o aúllen los vientos. Todos contamos con este núcleo interior de calma y tranquilidad. Está ahí cuando quiera que lo queramos o necesitemos. Si vamos hacia dentro, accedemos a su poderosa presencia sanadora. La montaña, por dentro, es perfecta; como lo somos nosotros.

The words of others cannot rob us of our inner peace and joy unless we give them the power to do so.

Practice focused apathy.

I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.

Give us serenity as we also allow others serenity.

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.

they simply want to be alone.

Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.

Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.