Quotes About Serenity

There were pretty carpets, good china, and an abundance of excellent food; there were magazines and papers and books lying about, and boxes of cigarettes for anyone who wanted them … there was all this, but above all there was peace. Peace, thought Franz, peace and happiness—yes, that was really the keynote of Fernacres.

I've always found the rain very calming.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faith—all I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are.

Aline found herself walking quickly, almost running, to her favorite place by the river, where a wildflower meadow sloped down to tall grasses alive with meadow-brown and marbled-white butterflies.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself.

Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,

Happiness doesn't grow where impatience grazes.

The half-moon hangs heavy, rocking on its back. Its twin rides the ripples in the rain barrel as I pass.

The most important skill in life is to learn the acceptance of that which you have not planned for yourself. Discontent, if watered even the slightest bit, spreads like choke weed. It will smother the garden if you let it,

By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the dreamwork of the trees….

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.

Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.

"I love Nunsmere," said the Literary Man from London. "It is a spot where faded lives are laid away in lavender."

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.