Quotes About Serenity

The hard bed, the stool beside it, the stark cross on the wall, each cast shadows. Only the man in the bed seemed shadowless. He was the stillest thing in the room.

Can lives that are merely constant be happy? If you asked Tom how he felt, he would have counted these out: wood, wind, waves. Not happy perhaps, but content. Ride Me Like a Wave (Stars anthology)

You're like the sky at midnight, when the moon is shining, and the wind is blowing.

Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.

When are you going to start saying nothing?

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.

If only we could be back there right now, a soft rain falling, in the cabin, the woodstove.

I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of the water, the chink of the dogs' leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother's dip-pen, the smell of the trees, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I wished a sleep would find us, at this absolute second, like sleep over the castle of sleeping beauty.

This is Zen, she said. No flaw, no moment's hesitation. A window onto grace.

As a photographer, God's light in Southern California is something unlike I've ever seen on planet Earth. There's a beauty about it, especially in the afternoon that is so pretty.

Unlike so many other sounds, there's no maximum exposure to birdsong.

Spending time in the studio, and creating music brings me peace unlike anything in my life.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I love how it feels to unwind by the ocean.

Im a night owl so I tend to do a lot of my disconnecting past midnight. I love the feeling when the whole world has shut down for the day Im left to think and unwind without any interruptions.

I have a really great bathtub, and I unwind by taking baths.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Come rain or shine you look out onto your garden every single day, so it's important and uplifting to have it done properly.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.