Quotes About Serenity

I could do this. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

She shook her head. "Matias, do you ever relax? Do you even know what that word means?" He smiled. "I do. I have even been known to allow myself a sensible chuckle on occasion.

To exist in peace, we have to sacrifice that violence.

grasses swayed gently, giving

When the delicious perfume of the sakura quickens the morning air, as the sun in its course rises to illumine first the isles of the Far East, few sensations are more serenely exhilarating than to inhale, as it were, the very breath of beauteous day.

Tranquillity is courage in repose.

What is a woman's greatest virtue? Patience.

The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

Where do we find happiness? We pursue it, search for it, kill ourselves trying to find it, and all the time it's just here...It comes just when we've stopped expecting anything, stopped hoping, stopped being afraid.

No one quite knew why, but they felt light-hearted. Maybe it was because of the beautiful weather. The sky, so blue, seemed gently to bow down towards the horizon and caress the earth.

Nel cuore di ogni uomo e di ogni donna resta una specie di Eden dove non ci sono né morte né guerre, dove le belve e le cerbiatte giocano in pace. Si tratta solo di ritrovare quel paradiso, rifiutando di vedere tutto il resto

As she'd hoped, the two of them were the sole occupants of this stretch of windswept beach. Sipping the steaming liquid, she let the familiar peace seep into her soul. The cerulean water sparkled in the morning sun, as if sprinkled with diamonds, and she drew in a cleansing breath of the tangy salt air. She watched a sandpiper play tag with the surf. Listed to the caw of a gull high overhead and the muted thunder of the breaking waves. Felt the breeze caress her cheek.

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart...

As for me — there is another partner waiting for me, a teacher whom I knew long ago — his name is solitude. I am glad to be back here among my English friends . . . But I shall come back here to an empty flat and close the door, and I shall lean back against the door, as I recall I used to when I was young, and breathe deeply and feel the deep relief and liberation of coming home to solitude, coming home to myself .

His eyes closed now, and for a long time they sat quietly thus. Such was their lovemaking.

David, que se disponía a correr su cortina contra el oscuro crepúsculo, se detuvo y clavó la vista en el jardín. El chico estaba de pie bajo la acacia, en la parte más cercana de la verja que separaba el jardín de Hood House del huerto. La figura estaba tan quieta y

There was a kind of sleeping or half-sleeping which I sometimes tried to achieve (especially at weekends) when I lay like a floating turtle, just breaking the surface of consciousness, aware and yet not self-aware, not yet tormented by being a particular person.

where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness.

The best you can hope for is a little peace and not too much remorse. Thoughts at peace under an English heaven.

Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection.

Let him die peacefully in his sleep and not know. Only not tonight, not tonight.

Franca, darling, let's be simple. And move quietly in the dark.