Quotes About Serenity

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

My life is a work of art and nature is my temple!

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.

The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Patience is the key to paradise.

ciúnas gan uaigneas" := quietness without lonliness.

As long as you are not at peace with yourself, it is not possible for you to be at peace with others.

Though I cannot flee From the world of corruption, I can prepare tea With water from a mountain stream And put my heart to rest.

Let us have peace.