Quotes About Serenity

There is nothing half so green that I know anywhere, as the grass of that churchyard; nothing half so shady as its trees; nothing half so quiet as its tombstones. The sheep are feeding there, when I kneel up, early in the morning, in my little bed in a closet within my mother's room, to look out at it; and I see the red light shining on the sun-dial, and think within myself, 'Is the sun-dial glad, I wonder, that it can tell the time again?

The prospect of seeing them no more, contributed greatly to calm her agitation, and, taking up a book, she composed herself to read.

The God who controls all things, who is present in your life, whether you acknowledge Him or not, is the God of Peace.

Una vez más comprendí lo que Pablo quiere decir por esa paz que sobrepasa todo entendimiento.

Father God, keep my mind and heart fixed on You so that I can experience the fullness of Your peace, amen.

Hear me very carefully on this point. Nobody can take your peace from you. If you have lost your peace, you have lost it for one main reason—you have surrendered it.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

To drink the sunshine and to dream at night...

[T]hat blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,— Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

Don't just do something — sit there!

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

I love the quiet calmness before the world is just waking up. That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical.

I wake to sunlight's morning caress and beautiful golden shine.

O sweet and healing medicine of troubles.

Music is the medicine of a troubled mind.

Seek the wilderness, for there is peace.

Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man.

And November sad,—a psalm Tender, trustful, full of balm, Thou must breathe in spirits calm.

October's Autumn casts a gentle light and a calm serenity before the stark barrenness of Winter is born to November

Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.

Keep calm and pumpkin spice everything.

The sound of the rain needs no translation.