Quotes About Serenity

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Time and Patience.

But I wasn't surprised, or scared, or even angry. I accepted it like a friendly wind, come to fly me home. It's okay, I thought. And it was.

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won't need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.

Planinski vrhunci su posebna mjesta koja mogu dati energiju svakome tko boravi na njima.

a pleasant reverie

Rest requires us to give up any ideas about control: controlling our experiences, controlling our feelings and controlling how we rest. Rest is fundamentally effortless and detached from experience.

DEAD FLIES ON THE SILLS OF sunny windows, weeds along the pathway, the kitchen empty. The house was melancholy, deceiving; it was like a cathedral where, amid the serenity, something is false, the saints are made of florist's wax, the organ has been gutted.

No hay felicidad como esta dicha: mañanas apacibles, la luz del río, el fin de semana por delante. Vivían una vida rusa, una vida fecunda, entrelazada, en la que un infortunio de uno de los miembros, un fracaso, una enfermedad, rompería el equilibrio de todos. Aquella vida era como una prenda de vestir. Su belleza estaba fuera, su calor dentro»

She preferred to lie up by the dunes with the waves bursting, to listen while they crashed like the final chords of a symphony except they went on and on. There was nothing as fine as that.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus (55 ? 135 A.D.) said, There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.

He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver ripples carried it home. It was a scene which seemed the heart of this land. The lowing sun and the one star waking, white wings on a black water, and the smell of rain, and the long lane fading where a voice comes in the falling night. --Ireland, said Scrotes. --Yes, this is Ireland.

Everything is more meaningful because it is connected to the earth. There are no signs to read, no billboards or neon messages; instead I read the hills and the fields and the farmhouses and the sky. The houses, made of mud and stone and wood, are not hermetically sealed. The wind blows in through the cracks, the night seeps in through the rough wooden window slats.The line between inside and outside is not so clear.

Our eyes can discover the peace and quiet, but that's no guarantee of reality.

Whenever he had a problem, he found that being near the water put things in perspective.

The Pacific Ocean waters were cool.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.