Quotes About Serenity

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.

He finds a ramp that leads down to the beach and lets gravity draw him towards sea level, gazing to the south and west. The water is pacific and colorless beneath a hazy sky, the horizon line is barely discernable.

It's a talent I've developed-one thing I've learned recently. How to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm

Her long hands were a little uplifted and clasped tightly together.

right at Elephant Rock, which indeed

In the quiet serenity of the night that did not seem very important; it was only important that she should shut up and not spoil his evening. "Now you get on and start her up, and shut up talking." She opened her mouth to give as good as she got, but said nothing. What he had told her was incredible; and yet it was what she had secretly feared for some time.

Everything had come good at last, after so many years. I had reached the happy ending of the story, and I was quietly, serenely happy. In the soft, velvety darkness I lay utterly at peace for I had finished with all heartaches, with all pains and worries; nothing could touch me now. I had finished the book but I could take it up and read it over and over again, and I would do so, secure in the knowledge of the happiness in the last chapter.

many people think excitement is happiness', actually 'when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.