Quotes About Serenity

She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight.

Where's your sense of adventure?' 'Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

In the future, I decided I would tackle the solitude thing more enthusiastically, so long as solitude meant I could also walk in the park and pet a few dogs and pass them treats.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand.

The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace.

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend.

Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There

This is just another day in April, a Tuesday defined by isolation and hard-won serenity

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

In her countless long walks over these one hundred and thirty acres

Having found peace in isolation, she won't put it at risk.

calm and sane. The key words of the Japanese experience, at least for most of its philosophical history, are "serenity" and "simplicity".

You can have privacy and tranquility up there, too, but also a sort of neighborhood.

hope knowing this doesn't diminish your love of the island.

meant to go down to the water and sit in the dock chair, let the blissful tranquility of the lake

Just being in his arms was like heaven; it felt like I was coming home.

Addicted to the small comfort I felt when I centered myself and concentrated on creating something beautiful.