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Quotes About Serenity

To ease the pain, erase the anger.
~ Anthony Liccione
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
~ Glenn Gould
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
~ John Keats
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.
~ Walter Scott
There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.
~ Frank Bettger
The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.
~ William Wordsworth
I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.
~ Mary Antin
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.
~ Henri Matisse
We take our last look at the killing noise.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
~ John Vance Cheney
Art to be art must soothe.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All I really need is my bed and my art around me.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
~ Veronica Roth
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .
~ Wayne D. Dosick
Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world
~ Millie DeWitt
The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.
~ Mark Nepo
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
~ Bill W.