Quotes About Serenity

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

Petals don't ask Where to landThey just fall With grace.

Does not heed to the darkWith its shimmering light, Moon quietly bathes the ocean

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

What grace I have is enough.

Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.

The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.Life is like that, so why not relax?Who can stop us from celebrating?

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.