Quotes About Serenity

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Deep within the center of the soul is a chamber of peace where God lives and where, if we will enter it and quiet all the other sounds, we can hear His "gentle whisper" (1 Kings 19:12).

But the greatest triumph of a person's faith is to "be still, and know that [He is] God" (Ps. 46:10).

Strength is found not in busyness and noise but in quietness.

The blue of heaven is larger than the clouds.

And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it

Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.

The energy was still flowing steadily, and Kait had a sense of cleansing. Her entire body felt light and airy, as if her feet weren't touching the ground.

The sun was beginning to sink into the horizon, and the smell of honeysuckle and jasmine hung heavily in the air. I glanced up at Veritas as I strode up the hill. Blooming

I like being on my own.

And then they just sat together, holding each other as the room filled with light.

el huesped septuagenario del número 12, investido alternativamente de gloria y de ignominia, permanecía estancado al costado de su hija -en la inalterable serenidad del atardecer de su existencia- como un guiñapo de hospital en la orilla de la cloaca.

No news at 430 a.m. is good.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

Peace is more than the absence of war.

She might have lived her life in this effulgence of mountain light.

She craved the moonlight and the wind. She wanted to feel the infinite depth of space above and around her.

La paz es más que la ausencia de guerra. La paz es concordia. Armonía.

On the riverfront thoroughfare, trams and buses roared past, grounding the day in the twenty-first century, but on the quieter lanes, the wintry peace might have hailed from another time.

Evening backward leadeth silence.

Yea, measur'd are thine hours no more by time, Ye radiant envoys, from the heavenly clime! To what new palace will ye hurry me? Now, now I swim in light-diffusing streams, Space grows before me, and the earth, meseems, beneath my feet doth flee.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm