Quotes About Serenity

On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.

quando voltei para a cama estava quase sereno, tanto quanto, no meio das nossas tragédias, nos tranquiliza a existência de outras a que fomos poupados.

Podría haberme pasado horas mirándola. Era un placer fácil, inocente, eternamente alegre; una pura promesa de felicidad.

Cuando la gente envejece, necesita pensar en cosas dulces y tranquilizadoras. Imaginar que algo hermoso nos espera en el cielo. En fin, que se entrenan un poquito para la muerte. Si no son ni demasiado imbéciles ni demasiado ricos.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

It is the suffering of being that makes us seek out the other, as a palliative; we must go beyond this stage to reach the state where the simple fact of being constitutes in itself a permanent occasion of joy; where intermediation is nothing more than a game, freely undertaken, and not constitutive of being. We must, in a word, reach the freedom of indifference, the condition for the possibility of perfect serenity.

En una palabra, debemos alcanzar la libertad de la indiferencia, condición que hace posible la perfecta serenidad.

Precious is sleep, better to be of stone, while the oppression and the shame still last; not seeing and not hearing, I am blest; so do not wake me, hush! keep your voice down.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

We run hither thither fine tuning different aspects of life and spread ourselves thin. Fine tune with your inner being, the source of all and you will fine tune in entirety. Let total tuning be instantised, shut your eyes, breathe and get MickeyMized.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

El cielo se veía muy lejos, muy azul, adornado como una tumba altísima por coronas de zopilotes que volaban en círculos dormidos.

Cuántas veces, sentado solo y solitario en uno de los bancos verdes de aquella plazuela, vio el incendio del ocaso sobre un tejado y alguna vez destacarse sobre el oro en fuego del espléndido arrebol el contorno de un gato negro sobre la chimenea de una casa!

Una mujer que con su sola presencia aligeraba la pesadumbre de vivir.

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

O que o acordou foi o silêncio.

Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman's untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child's wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude," goes the old saying that Francis Bacon repeated, "is either a wild beast or a god.

Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

Even the approach of death itself can serve to create harmony in consciousness, rather than despair.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

la soledad es el patrimonio de la edad adulta.

Inhale deeply one more time without forcing yourself. Exhale and feel that your body and mind become very relaxed.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference."5