Quotes About Serenity

A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.

Sleep is my friend and is the only place in this world where I don't get into fights with other people

THE BETTER YOU BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH GOD, THE LESS TENSIONS YOU FEEL AND THE MORE PEACE YOU POSSESS. Charles

Time to visit greenhouses, pick out plants, make my gardening selections. It is nearly time to spend a small personal fortune on those few chosen plants I wish to set out in my new garden and ignore all summer.

this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." —PSALM 55:6

And so Cristina submerged her ears beneath the water and the world grew a little quieter; her hair fanned out atop the plane and she ran her fingers through it and was reminded of a goddess in a Renaissance painting. Her mind wandered far from the villa and the ruins and her unshakable sense that her world was about to change.

It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert.

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

Sometimes I'll go fishing with a group of friends but I am just as happy sitting out there on my own. The strange mixture of peace and challenge that comes with being a dedicated angler has always been intoxicating to me.

I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.

Climbing in a beautiful location, the goal is not to power my way up but to become for that moment a part of the landscape, part of the rock.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I'm good where I am at this moment.

I have found serenity at Monaco.

When I wake up on a Monday morning, it's nice knowing for the next 10-12 days that I don't have to do much of anything if I don't want to.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I love to fish almost more than anything.

Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.

I've been meditating since 14 years and my mornings are spent in the building garden.

When you've got the road to yourself, it's the most amazing feeling.

I really like to go for the essence of things - the most beautiful parts of things - of human beings or of music. If there are things in there that are getting in the way and complicating it, it's just not good for me.

Water is the most powerful thing in the world. Just being in it, around it, it gives me some sort of peace. Watching it, looking at it, I love it.