Quotes About Serenity

We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time.

The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.

To know silence perfectly is to know music.

Night from a railroad car window is a great, dark, soft thing Broken across with slashes of light.

Death comes once, let it be easy.

Music is any sound you want to go on and on.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

WHEN I FIRST CAME to the Sahara I was afraid of the night. For some, night means more work, for others dissipation, for still others insomnia, boredom. For me now it's quite different. Night is first of all rest, real rest. At sunset a great serenity sets in, as though nature were obeying a sudden sign from God.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue. But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

the sound of the fountain wove its way through the arches.

I let the remainder of the morning drift by between the alchemy of the music and the perfume of books

Te quiero - dije - Ya lo sé. Nos quedamos allí cogidos de la mano, viendo cómo un alud apabullante de nubarrones carmesíes encapotaba los cielos, y lloré, sintiéndome feliz al fin.

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As in, what makes you the happiest? You said you hate college. What makes peace in your heart? That's your passion.

No place is lonely if you are happy there

Pretty," she commented to herself. "Oh, why can't all people be nice like this scenery and not make trouble?

As the little launch turned out into the lake, Nancy was entranced with the beautiful sight before her. The delicate azure blue of the sky and the mellow gold of the late afternoon sun were reflected in the shimmering surface of the water. "What a lovely scene for an oil painting!" she thought. As they sped along, however, Nancy kept glancing at the cottages, intermingled with tall evergreen trees that bordered the shore line.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.