Quotes About Serenity

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful

I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard's chair, a broken shell, gulls watching egrets, home an ocean away.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath

There's a harmony flowing through everything: art, music, shape. Sometimes you can just feel the way things are and ought to be.

I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

The summer passed quietly. I busied myself as best I could, reading a good deal.

Then came a final wave of his hand, his red wind-breaker like a splash of paint on the kingfisher blue and the dome of cerulean above it, almost a quaint folk painting, the forms containing all that was essential, man suspended above the abyss, the water and sky elegant, the points of color making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as a work of art should do. As

switched it off. He fell asleep holding Pin's kingfisher in his hand.

Jednostavno je ratovati,najteže je održati mir.

That land was so level that the only way you didn't see the stars was if you looked at your feet, and the sky smelled of deep water. I could have jumped off into it and swum wherever I wanted.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.

Two of life's greatest pleasures, by my reckoning, are camping and reading—most gloriously, both at once.

If you like solitude, you're never alone.

life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

Such a display of beauty and happiness is not possible without contentment,

He sat quietly, whether thinking or fuming or both, it was hard to tell. But he eventually arrived at a reply. It felt like some great mystic was about to reveal the Meaning of Life. "Get enough sleep," he said. He set his jaw in a way that conveyed he wouldn't be saying any more. This was what he'd learned. I accepted it as truth.

He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.

Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can't dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here's

My desires dropped away. I didn't long for anything. I didn't even have a name. To put it romantically, I was completely free.

Japanese researchers at Chiba University found that a daily fifteen-minute walk in the woods caused significant decreases in cortisol, along with a modest drop in blood pressure and heart rate. Physiologists believe our bodies relax in hushed natural surroundings because we evolved there; our senses matured in grasslands and woods, and remain calibrated to them. A

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.