Quotes About Serenity

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.

...A pure wind envelopes my body. The whole world seen in a single cup.

God grant me the courage to date the men who aren't idiots. The serenity to accept the fact that many men are idiots. And the wisdom to know the difference

they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...

There's something about being near the ocean that puts your life in perspective. It's reassuring, that's what it is.

Karigan, meanwhile, only half-listened, her mind wandering to thoughts of her pillow. She loved her pillow, and it loved her back. It was so soft with its downy filling, so comfortable.

The sand and the sea bowed to her glory; reveling in her presence and soaking up her beauty.

Hoe graag zou ik niet beginnen met de beschrijving van iets moois, een diepblauw meer, omringd door perfect kegelvormige vulkanen, een bulderende waterval diep in een oerwoud, een klaterende bron die in een drassig grasland ontspringt, een tapijt wilde hyacinten uitgerold in een donker bos, plekken die ik op reizen met andere mensen heb gezien, misschien bestaan ze nog, niet alles is verknoeid. ? De tuin der onschuldigen

The sea/the same then as now: more blear than blue, more/blue than silver

As if sometimes the world really did amount to a quiet arrangement.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

My dad died at a point in his life when he was mentally at peace.

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself.

A precious miracle that the infinite play of combinations has unlocked for us, allowing us to exist. We may smile now. We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time - in our finite time - to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

We can go back to serenely immersing ourselves in time -in our finite time- to savoring the clear intensity of every fleeting and cherished moment of the brief circle of our existence.

Our moral values, our emotions, our loves are no less real for being part of nature, for being shared with the animal world, or for being determined by the evolution which our species has undergone over millions of years. Rather, they are more valuable as a result of this: they are real. They are the complex reality of which we are made. Our reality is tears and laughter, gratitude and altruism, loyalty and betrayal, the past which haunts us and serenity.

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

El secreto de la felicidad está en no insistir (Gregorio Martínez Sierra).

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer utters itself. So, a woman will lift her head from the sieve of her hands and stare at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

We gather others to follow the good when our knowledge of the way is so strong that doubt can no longer invade our inner serenity; when we no longer feel any need to convince, contend with, or woo people; when we no longer try to employ giant steps or to skip steps in order to make swift progress; when we no longer try to achieve something without working for it.

In retreating we cling to simplicity (recognition and acceptance of being powerless), sincerity, and serenity, and to the power of truth to correct the situation. Thus, we retain our inner independence, preserve the power of our personality, and are able to go on our way without any loss of self.