Quotes About Serenity

La terrasse bruisse d'un va-et-vient de tons montants, descendants, neutres qui font comme des exclamations et des glissades d'eau au milieu du chant des oiseaux.

Happiness is waking up in the morning with no regrets or worries for the present or future; it is having peace in the moment.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

A adormit bu?tean, cum dorm numai acei ferici?i care nu sufer? nici de hemoroizi, nici de purici ?i nici de vreo agerime prea mare a min?ii.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.

A quiet mind is all you need.

It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace.

Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

The more my mind began to quiet, the more I found myself wanting to be surrounded by natural beauty.

Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

You can't worry about what you can't control,

The most peaceful memory I have is of when I drown.

I love slow music.

I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.12

Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.

It turns out that it takes courage simply to be a normal person at ease in the world among others.

The day Was like the buzzard on the pine.