Quotes About Serenity

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

A mind at peace does not engender wars.

Feathers... drift on the water like dreams.

The beauty of sleep is the way the world around you disappears.

May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,

Equanimity is based on the knowledge that everything changes and will always change and that is okay. We find equanimity only by paying close attention to what is happening in the moment.

A woman who could look death squarely in the face and smile was beyond the plane of physical ruin.

paused to take another breath. "And taking these worries

Funny that when skies were clear, he was the storm. But in the middle of the storm…He was the calm.

And yesterday, when she'd claimed a quiet place on

You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. I

There is a calming aura at the ocean's edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same on your good days and your bad days. Nice to know on the worse of days that there are few things you can utterly count on. P. 107

I find her often at the peach tree, looking up at its branches and listening to the rustle of its leaves.

We spend many of our afternoons out under the peach tree, sitting on a blanket

I walk to think and not to think. When walking I remember things that are important to me. I walk to forget. I have yet to set out on a walk in low spirits and return feeling worse than I did when I left the door. A change occurs between the fate and the porch, walking lifts the weight off the heart. Or as the writer Jim Harrison says, "When you're out of sorts, walk a hundred miles.

The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.

Lake Michigan had tempted her. It was a clear emerald green, and she could see to the bottom. The sand looked soft.

For there's sweeter rest On a truelove's breast Than any other where.

No sleeping in the places of death.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.