Quotes About Serenity

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;...

And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in her feet.

IF this importunate heart trouble your peace With words lighter than air

When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.

Innisfree... I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

In the coppice, leaves were quietly and majestically floating earthwards in the pomp of death.

No esperes mucho: no temas nada»,

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

I have come back through the years to this stone hollow encrypted in its own stillness I hear it without listening

but happiness has a shape made of air / it was never owned by anyone / it comes when it will in its own time — W.S. Merwin, from "December Morning," Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

Let all lights but yours be nothing to me. Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake. But lead me at times beside the still waters; There when I crouch to drink let me catch a glimpse of your image Before it is obscured with my own…

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.