Quotes About Serenity

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

silence surrounds me almost audibly

He'd lowered

Cumulus clouds became incendiary as the setting sun lit them. The quiet was extraordinary, the only sound the burble of a truck leaving Mammoth Village and descending the switchbacks toward Gardiner.

years out on Bighorn Road or on the ranch, their

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.

I have seen the absolute black; it was unspeakably beautiful.

give your brain the regular doses of quiet it requires to support a monumental life.

Bollingen Towers;

wish that the great wilderness what still dominated up on mountains like the purple Catskills—standing in the distance to my left that afternoon—would

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Forse un giorno si arriverà ad essere tutti sereni, e non capiremo più tante cose perché capiremo tutto.

Accept your positive experiences without taking credit and you have humility. Accept your negative experiences without blame and you have serenity.

Era mais fácil não se importar, ir com a maré e se preocupar com um dia de cada vez.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." —Buddha

there's nothing better in the world than sitting or lying down with a cat on your lap, and listening to that soft throaty noise of happiness and contentment to make you feel that life is good, no matter what else is going on.

you, bringing serenity in those moments when you are most absorbed in a project.

Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart.

Silencio, silencio y más silencio. Me gusta el silencio. El silencio no hace daño. Las palabras, sí.

God helps me--that's what I think--and then I am calm.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.