Quotes About Serenity

The rain cools the air, calms the soul and replenishes life.

Rain showers my spirit and waters my soul.

California's redwood forests are famous for being home to the tallest living things on the planet, but there's much more to these extraordinary woodlands than the size of the trees. At their best, redwood forests are suffused with a sense of openness and serenity. Sun-dappled, elegantly fluted tree trunks shoot straight as an arrow into the sky, while below are burbling streams, spectacular fallen trunks, and a lush accumulation of ferns, sorrel, moss, and lichen.

Be thoroughly assured of the constancy of your disposition, and the solidity of your motives, before you totally engage in retirement.

late winter and early spring blend and blur in pleasant days and chilly nights penetrating sun and gentle cool breezes with stirrings of life, subtle and green — mornings that light ever earlier rouse us, but sunsets that still come in evening's youth lull

Possess your soul without fussing; your guardian angel does not lose half the sleep over you you think he does.

The Arctic expresses the sum total of all wisdom. Silence. Nothing but silence...

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.

May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.

When snow falls, nature listens.

Time had ceased quivering and coiling back on itself. It had become taut and resonant and she was enfolded in its infinite smoothness.

The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a frozen ballet, breathing a ghostly incense from dark, arid chapels sheltered by their branches.

Gut ist der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser

The dead do not squabble as this land's rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace…

E pareva giocasse nella notte morente, la luna, libera e sola nel deserto del cielo crepuscolare, sopra la terra ancora addormentata; e si nascondeva, e riappariva tra le fronde, e si specchiava nell'acqua destandovi mille sorrisi, compiacendosi a vedersi nuda, libera e sola.

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

Kate had made both the environment and the body for him, and he liked the tranquil mood of the piece. There was no invented family, no role to play; this was a painting, not a drama. One place, one moment, lasting as long as he chose to inhabit it.

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

Isn't it better to live in ignorance of everything--asphalt and macadam, vehicles, telephones, televisions--to live in bliss without knowing it?

Ignorance is bliss," Travers said. "Yes. Very appropriate cliché.

The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our heads. Behold the One who can't take His eyes off of you. Marinate in the vastness of that.

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace.

The world is perfect there. Or maybe you're perfect and the world is the same.