Quotes About Serenity

here, here, there was peace. The deep peace that comes not just with quiet, but with familiarity.

Outside, clouds had once again rolled in and brought with them snow. Again. Huge soft flakes, as though the clouds themselves were breaking up and drifting down in pieces.

The room was filled with volume and volumes. With light. With peace.

Y las bibliotecas: silenciosas, tranquilas. Un refugio para el caos de la vida adolescente.

very few people were ever really carefree. But there were moments of bliss.

a single bright orange leaf lost its grip and wafted back and forth, gently falling to the ground.

circling the green. She

A peace above all earthly dignities," she quoted. Then turned back to the room. "A still and quiet conscience.

This isn't inaction, this is simply a deep breath.

Equanimity and indifference. I think that's the worst of the near enemies, the most corrosive. Equanimity is balance. When something overwhelming happens in our lives we feel it strongly but we also have an ability to overcome it.

Armand Gamache looked across to the deep green midsummer forest and the mountains that rolled into eternity. Then his eyes dropped to the village in the valley below them, as though held in the palm of an ancient hand. A stigmata in the Québec countryside. Not a wound, but a wonder.

quiet for a sunny London afternoon. He said, 'It's too quiet.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Then I see you, Standing under a spire of pale blue larkspur, With a basket of roses on your arm. You are cool, like silver, And you smile. I think the Canterbury bells are playing little tunes.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

The whole sense of the voyage of Odysseus, which we shall trace or retrace in chapter three, starts here: the good life is the life reconciled to what is the case, the life lived in its natural place, within the cosmic order, and it behooves each of us to find this place and accomplish this voyage if we want one day to arrive in the harbor of wisdom, of serenity.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Even the serenity he felt was something that needed to be understood; it seemed a symptom of a deeper and more complete understanding that lay yet beyond him.

The clouds to the south had cleared, and the sun appeared, gradually pushing shadow down the hills, spreading light like syrup over the brown slopes and the forests down to the lake.

a great silence settled over the mountain.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.