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Quotes About Serenity

Only at moments of great serenity is it possible to find the pure, the informationless state of signal zero.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Amare tenendo la bocca chiusa, aiutare senza rompersi il culo o renderlo noto a tutti: essere calmi, ma partecipi.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…. This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy—deep down. All is well.
~ Katherine Mansfield
The heavens opened for the sunset to-night. When I had thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Saw the sun rise. A lovely apricot sky with flames in it and then solemn pink. Heavens, how beautiful...I feel so full of love to-day after having seen the sun rise.
~ Katherine Mansfield
But the pear tree was as lovely as ever and as full of flower and as still.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I am tired, blissfully tired. Do you suppose that daisies feel blissfully tired when they shut for the night and the dews descend upon them?
~ Katherine Mansfield
Estaban paradas en los peldaños cuando el alto montículo de césped sobre el que reposaba la sábila se alzó como una ola; la sábila parecía navegar encima como un barco con los remos levantados. El brillante claro de luna bañaba los remos como si fuera agua y en la ola verde centelleaba el rocío.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Y ¡Aquel aire! ¿Era el aire siempre así? Unas brisas tenues jugaban a perseguirse: entraban por lo alto de las ventanas y salían por las puertas. Había dos manchas de sol chiquitinas, una sobre el tintero y otra en el marco de plata de una fotografía. Unas manchitas preciosas, sobre todo la de la tapa del tintero. Era muy cálida, una cálida estrellita de plata. Sintió el impulso de besarla.
~ Katherine Mansfield
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?...
~ Katherine Mansfield
To see to the depth of a river, wade into still water. In the silent space under the slick of the world, the river clears. If you stand still too, so as not to wrinkle the water, you will see the shadows of minnows. You will smell sage and melting snow and you will notice, incised into the topography of the silt, little river channels pointing to the sea. And isn't this what you had hoped to find? A quiet place where everything comes clear and the Earth itself shows the way to the one thing.
~ Kathleen Dean Moore
Peace — that was the other name for home.
~ Kathleen Norris
I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Live, Monsieur Tissot. I'd like to live in great comfort. And peace.' And then she added, quite to her surprise, 'With no one to tell me what to do or how to do it.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
as she breathed deeply, trying to lower her pulse rate. Rick
~ Kathryn Hughes
That thick silvery hair of his—which had felt like spun silk in her hands—parted slightly over the tips of his ears and spread out around him like a sparkling halo. He lay on his back, one arm thrown above his head, his face softer in sleep, the angles less harsh. His pale skin appeared to glow in the darkness, highlighting the muscles of his chest, the ridges in his abdomen.
~ Kathryne Kennedy
I don't need to rest in this life. I can rest when I die. Then nobody's going to bother me.
~ Kathy Eldon
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~ Kati Marton
A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.
~ Kay Ryan
It was quiet in the jungle, the kind of quiet that rings in your ears.
~ Kaza Kingsley
The sound of life has divine silence.
~ Kedar Joshi
And the forest perfume — trees and earth — it's like incense in a shrine. You fall into a state of... prayer.
~ Keiichi Sigsawa
The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight.
~ Keith Donohue