Quotes About Serenity

L'Heure Exquise La lune blanche Luit dans les bois ; De chaque branche Part une voix Sous la ramée... Ô bien-aimée. L'étang reflète, Profond miroir, La silhouette Du saule noir Où le vent pleure... Rêvons, c'est l'heure. Un vaste et tendre Apaisement Semble descendre Du firmament Que l'astre irise... C'est l'heure exquise.

The older I get, the more I just prefer to sleep.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

In the same way that fish had quickness, cats had a way of being still. That was their gift, and you could learn a lot by watching them get there.

We stood there, locked and lovely as statues in a garden.

Outside, the storm picked up, dropping a soundless sheet of white.

I think I could turn and live with animals,' " he read aloud, "they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins….

You need to learn to live with yourself, not others," he went on. "That's the difficult part. When you learn to accept your own nature, it will start to feel peaceful, not frantic. Maybe then you'll stop throwing yourself at such terrible choices.

baobab. Away in the distance I could see the cloud-softened

And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.

If I were any kind of water," Eden said, staring out and out, "I'd want to be this ocean." You already are, I wanted to tell her. You're everything I can see.

I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.

The waves reach up and the fathomless sky pushes down.

rounded blue-grey hills that went smoky and purple at dusk before dissolving into the night sky. When we

Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.

The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the glittering surface of the water and lay in white mats against the banks.

there is one place I'm comforted. I wake up there, and I go to sleep there; I am at peace there, and loved there: your subsuming arms. Tatiana

el equilibrio natural de las cosas se restablecerá de algún modo

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

no fundo, no fundo, bem lá no fundo, a gente gostaria de ver nossos problemas resolvidos por decreto a partir desta data, aquela mágoa sem remédio é considerada nula e sobre ela — silêncio perpétuo

grato pela graça a graça que eu acho em tudo que fica por tudo que passa

For me, everything is cool.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.