Quotes About Serenity

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.

The garden stretched out in a soft drift, colors jumbled any way, an unmade bed of red and yellow and pink. Then came the trees. Apple, plum, and the Japanese black pine.

Never let them see you sweat.

Human beings get no practice at staying. We have no special limbs for it. Once we commit to being still, darling, it's all we ever do.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

With rest you might find the world a small bit brighter.

And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.

He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;

And I have asked to be Where no storms come

I have asked to be Where no storms come

Ik zit, m'n benen bunglend, op de waterkant En in een bootje hoor ik ginds een tango spelen; Verdomd! Ik wist niet, dat er in dit land Nog zoveel aards geluk viel weg te stelen.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Estaba muerta, ése era ahora su estado natural y pacífico. Como si nunca hubiera sido otra cosa: de repente pétrea, muerta y neutra, una cosa.

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed peace

But you were born to gentle dreams,

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

like a swan and its reflection on the surface of a lake.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

No response no reaction

Pain and fear often make us act foolishly," Serenity advised. "Do not judge yourself harshly for your mistakes

The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.