Quotes About Serenity

Yes, there had been a void inside me, but voids were underrated. Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness was not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.

Don't worry about things you can't control.

That was the whole point of home, the comfort of a perfectly effortless existence.

Add a comma to your day

To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own nonupgraded existence.

And Nora felt similarly, in that moment. Although she had only been left alone for an hour at this point, she had never experienced this level of solitude before, amid such unpopulated nature.

From here the waves sound like breaths. Inhale. Exhale.

I would sit on the beach, as waves crashed and retreated over the sparkling sand like lost dreams

He seemed like he would be able to sit in a field near Chernobyl and marvel at the beautiful scenery.

Santa Barbara is pleasant. It's heaven, but with a bit more traffic.

Ik heb nooit een gezelliger kameraad gevonden dan de eenzaamheid. (Thoreau)

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it . . . but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche

To be is to let go

Pentru a avea sansa la fericire trainica, trebuie sa te calmezi. Trebuie doar sa fii in acel lucru si sa il faci pur si simplu.

advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

Everything looked expensive and calm, as if calm was something you needed money to pay for.

never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I want to make a forest of a moment and live in that forest for ever

and advised I take things 'one day at a time', as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

The silence of not needing to talk. Of just being together, of together-being. The way you could be happily silent with yourself.

Bütün güzellikler vahÅŸi ve özgürdür.

It began to rain again, so she sat there with the blinds open, staring at the drops on the glass.