Quotes About Serenity

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

The wise man never loses his temper.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man!

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

Are you cold when you are happy? Are you cold when you are unhappy? Then you are a wise man! Wisdom makes man cool and calm. Wise man is cool and calm!

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.