Quotes About Serenity

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn't call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occurring

when you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.

it's necessary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing. - my telephone

I want quiet thunder.

but when I see those lovely old boxcars with their faded painted lettering and those flat cars and those fat round tankers all lined up and waiting I get quiet inside I get what other men get from other things I just feel better and it's good to feel better whenever you can not needing a reason.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

there is hardly anything as beautiful as a woman in a long dress not even the sunrise not even the geese flying south in the long V formation in the bright freshness of early morning.

Nobody bother us, we bother nobody.

The best way to think is not at all

I felt better being alone.

Ele [Henry} é tão quietinho... - As águas paradas são as que têm maior profundidade

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments.

her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment for the occasions when he did, since the other was so easy.

so all you can hear is just general leaves?

sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.

And slept like a dead pig;

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

The secret is to have a quiet heart, and to celebrate each moment of life so as to have no fear of death.

Let go, live your life, the grave has no sunny corners