Quotes About Serenity

Stability grows as I learn to accept what I cannot control and take control of what I can.

All who enter even a little into that state of being present will experience a calmness and a degree of ecstasy which they will want to repeat.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk. The rain makes running pools in the gutter. The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night– And I love the rain.

The silence inside the library, the big chairs, and long tables, and the fact that the library was always there and didn't seem to have a mortgage on it, or any sort of insecurity about it—all of that made me love it.

We buried him high on a windy hill, But his soul went out to sea. I know, for I heard, when all was still, His sea-soul say to me: Put no tombstone at my head, For here I do not make my bed. Strew no flowers on my grave, I've gone back to the wind and wave. Do not, do not weep for me, For I am happy with my sea.

The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.

And the night becomes Still as a whispering heartbeat.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Change how you breathe to change how you feel. Specifically, "belly breathing," or taking deep, diaphragmatic breaths that cause your belly to rise and fall, has an immediate soothing effect on your nervous system.

This story has no point but stillness itself...

Sometimes the breath is very fine, like silk or satin; it enters and exits freely. How wonderful just to be breathing! At other times it is coarse, more like burlap; it fights its way in and out. Sometimes the breath is so deep and smooth that it affects the whole body, relaxing us profoundly. Other times it's so short and pinched, hurried and agitated, that our minds and bodies are like that, restless and uncomfortable.

but you're beginning to get a taste of what it is like to be free and clear, wholehearted and effortless.

He could not breathe freely unless the land spread open in front of him. There were no awkward questions, no uncomfortable demands here, only the sky and the soil and the steady beat of hooves and heart in tandem.

All of live is a celebration if you just find the right spot in the sun to take it all in

He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.

Non correva via da qualcosa o verso qualcosa, non correva per qualcuno o a dispetto di qualcuno: correva perché era quello che il suo corpo desiderava fare. L'irrequietezza, l'insicurezza e il bisogno di contrapporsi scomparvero. Tutto quello che sentiva era pace.

In the morning he rose to run again. He didn't run from something or to something, not for anyone or in spite of anyone; he ran because it was what his body wished to do. The restiveness, the self-consciousness, and the need to oppose disappeared. All he felt was peace.