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Quotes About Serenity

He had experienced only kindness and forgiveness. Actually, it wasn't kindness and forgiveness. It was something much better than that. It was nothing. He experienced nothing.
~ Jon Ronson
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
~ Jonathan Edwards
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The dream of radical transformation: of one day waking up and finding himself a wholly different (more confident, more serene) kind of person, of escaping that prison of the given, of feeling divinely capable.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Only silence was acceptable in its potential to be endless.
~ Jonathan Franzen
A silence fell. Frogs in the night were calling, calling, calling.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.
~ Jonathan Landaw
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's better to lose than to never have had.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Being with him made my brain quiet.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Once upon a time there was a man whose life was so good there's no story to tell about it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
~ Jonathan Swift
Il futuro si costruisce passo dopo passo, non ci sono dubbi. Ma è altrettanto certo che saremo migliori se sapremo vivere nel presente circondandoci di tutte quelle cose buone che ancora esistono, facendo buoni propositi, e avvicinandoci a tutte quelle persone impegnate alla scoperta di sé, che con ottimismo hanno imparato ad ascoltare. Solo in questo modo potremo addormentarci notte dopo notte un po' più sereni e svegliarci ogni mattina un po' più saggi.
~ Jorge Bucay
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
No hables a menos que puedas mejorar el silencio.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La ceguera gradual no es cosa trágica. Es como un lento atardecer de verano.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Me negué, con suave energía, a discutir el Aleph; lo abracé, al despedirme, y le repetí que el campo y la serenidad son dos grandes médicos
~ Jorge Luís Borges
În vremea aceea,c?utam înser?rile,mahalalele ÅŸi nefericirea;acum caut dimineÅ£ile,centrul ÅŸi senin?tatea.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Cuando era joven, me atraían los atardeceres, los arrabales y la desdicha; ahora, las mañanas del centro y la serenidad.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Não fale, a menos que você possa aprimorar o silêncio.
~ Jorge Luís Borges