Quotes About Serenity

She closed her eyes, tried to go far away to that mythical green valley in her mind, tried to see it with rainbows in a clearing sky after a summer rain.

Let not your hearts be troubled,

Don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or clothes to wear. For life consists of far more than food and clothing. LUKE 12:22-23

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

The cure for moving too fast is just to slow down.

I nurture very good intentions about you. May you die in peace.

I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

Whenever I miss you. I just close my eyes and I see your smiling face and half of my problems automatically get solved.

There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with a gentle and peaceful spirit.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.