Quotes About Serenity

There is indeed scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets...

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Give me nights perfectly quiet... and I looking up at the stars...

Clouds tie-dye the night.

Under the stars, the world is a different place.

Here there are very beautiful fields with olive trees, which are grey and silvery green, like pollard willows. And I never get tired of the blue sky..

My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon.

Forest air is magical.

An evening walk gives the body and mind a chance to forgive the trials and tribulations of the day, to shed the rubbish and mental clutter before retiring for the night.

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is Ocean's voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

I swim down through liquid green heavens, down through the poem of the sea.

The sea has no mood except that of the sky and of its winds.

Beach air is magical.

Winter stars blaze in silent joy.

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.

And the night shall be filled with music...

Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.

But in every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.