Quotes About Serenity

Warte nur, balde ruhest du auch

nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

Der Schlaf, den wir ersehnen, der vollkommene Schlaf, ist traumlos. Wir werden von Träumen heimgesucht, sobald wir gelernt haben, uns zu erinnern und Reue zu empfinden

Stability and balance is not an absence of chaos. It is the ability to walk the line between chaos and order with an open mind and heart.

It is both relaxing and invigorating to ... set aside the worries of life, [and] seek the company of a friendly book...

the sun, which had been slipping into the far-off waterline of the horizon, took the last few degrees of its plunge and disappeared with tropical suddenness, leaving them only the fading blue of the sky.

It was a sweet and happy dream. The quiet spot, outside, seemed to remain the same, save that there was music in the air, and a sound of angels' wings.

If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

I stood upon an ocean's short, And viewed the silent deep; While 'neath the brightly beaming stars All nature lay asleep. As 'lone I paced that pebbly strand, And thought of those above, An angel seem'd to whisper me,— There's nothing true but love.

The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.

If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry.

Oh, how the strife and trouble of daily life receded from my view, and lessened in the distance... What voices spoke from out the thundering water; what faces, faded from the earth, looked out upon me from its gleaming depths; what Heavenly promise glistened in those angels' tears, the drops of many hues, that showered around, and twined themselves about the gorgeous arches which the changing rainbows made!

They can betray me, but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

Beauty is visible music....

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.

A healthy mind has an easy breath.

Breathe open fields of calm and content. Don't clang your lungs against your burdens. A constricted life needn't constrict your breath.

The green grass and happy skies court the fluttering butterflies.

High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

Massive rolling waves of white-gray clouds chase the warm afternoon across a deep blue sky.

Self-reflection is the first step to decluttering because it's not about the stuff.

There's something about cold mornings and hot coffee that brings Time to a crawl, until our mugs are empty, then it lightning-bolts off into the waiting day.