Quotes About Serenity

Anni and Josef Albers's house was the whitest place imaginable.

At the Bauhaus, Josef Albers wrote a friend for whose apartment he was designing furniture, "An empty room is always the best.

To reduce apparent details was to increase emotional and physical ease.

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.

It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy.

What do you like most about being here? The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

I am, however, of the opinion that something has been lost in the process: the simple joy of waking in the morning and having nothing whatsoever to do.

For silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

Natural things gave back more than they took, and their sounds always brought him back to the way man was supposed to be.

There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

Mount Abu is a beautiful place.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.

For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.