Quotes About Serenity

Sunlight poured slowly over the lip of the window and flooded the cottage.

E quando o seu bem-querer dormir Tome conta que ele sonhe em paz, Como alguém que lhe apagasse a luz, Vedasse a porta e abrisse o gás.

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one near or far To keep the world from being mine.

Scarce heard, beneath yon arching trees, The silver-crested ripples pass; And, like a mimic brook, the breeze Whispers among the grass. Here from the world I win release, Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude, Break in to mar the holy peace Of this great solitude. Here may the silent tears I weep Lull the vexed spirit into rest, As infants sob themselves to sleep Upon a mother's breast...

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

Solitude is a form of meditation.

Solitude coaxes magical things from our souls.

The reason old souls enjoy spending time alone is because they never really are.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

At length the sun's rays have attained the right angle, and warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snow-banks, and the sun dispersing the mist smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks his way from islet to islet, cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off.

But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it.

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

I get so excited over sunsets and rainbows etc, when you see them it's like you can shut out the real world and envelop yourself in a beauty that almost makes it feel like fantasy.

This morning's tea makes yesterday distant.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

Tea is a cup of life.

Tea: a moment of peace from the constant battles of life.

A crisis pauses during tea.

Sipping a cup of hot tea is like a mental bubble bath.

Whilst drinking tea, our hearts steam love.

Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.