Quotes About Serenity

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

La paz significa en la mayoría de los casos una vida serena, la disponibilidad de lo necesario, la dignidad de no tener que implorar piedad. La paz puede significar también libertad, si es administrada sabiamente.

No hay hombre capaz de avanzar seguro por su camino si no tiene el espíritu sereno.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, On a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky, And I will never grow so old again, And I will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain. - Sweet Thing

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Understanding precedes peace.

Charles Spurgeon once said: 'I looked at Christ, and the dove of peace flew into my heart. I looked at the dove, and it flew away.

I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it's all over.

Le succès est peu de choses, auprès d'une conscience en repos.

There's always an assumption of selflessness in planting a tree. You're supposed to think, while digging the hole, how far into the future the tree will grow and what shallow, unconvincing weeds we humans are in comparison. Standing by the young sprout, you're supposed to wonder who will see this tree when it's full-grown, and you're bound in duty to consider the serenity of your own grave.

Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

A self-working individual will be sitting around home one day when the startling thought occurs, "Here I am, sitting around, doing nothing of interest, nothing to hope for, no one to talk with-and I am not depressed.

Allí surtiendo de lo oscuro, rompiendo de lo oscuro, serena, pero casi cruel, como una leve diosa recobrada, hete aquí que ella emerge, sagradamente su ademán extendiendo, para que la luz del día, la ya gozosa luz que la asalta, se vierta doradamente viva sobre su palma núbil.

And let the clean space shine in the hands of its captor the slow, elegant, daily drinker of the waves.

nightcap with Browne

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.