Quotes About Serenity

The only thing that remained distinct about Grace, through it all, was his equipoise. He never lost his cool. He never snapped at his aides. He never panicked. He'd always been the coolest person in any room, and drew people to him by force of his coolness, and that never changed.

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

BE AT REST ONCE MORE, O MY SOUL. PSALM 116:7

Loneliness is the price you pay for keeping things uncomplicated

Life's a beach

I'm getting soft! I need the sea! I miss its greens and blues and grays. Its singing whales. Its silent rays. Its shipwrecks resting on the sand. Undiscovered and unmanned Removed now from all history I miss the sea! Its mystery. Its kelp. Its creatures. Crabs and corals Devoid of complicating morals. Its secrets. All its saline riches. I'm going home.

Le sonrió, y Nathalie contestó a su sonrisa con otra sonrisa. Habían vuelto las sonrisas. Es curioso cómo a veces uno decide algo muy en serio, se dice que todo será así a partir de ahora, y basta un ínfimo gesto de los labios para quebrar la seguridad de una certeza que parecía casi eterna.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

What I want to preserve are not just beautiful places but the possibility that an individual can, in this overheated, overcrowded world, find a place to be quiet and alone. To have their own freedom. Is this really too much to ask? Shouldn't there be a few places left to get away from motors? From the incessant roar of machines?

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...

Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little giggles on the outer edges of his mind, in the dark creases behind his thoughts. He felt good, better than he'd felt in years. As if he were inside a huge embrace. And he felt as if he had finally reached the right place, his home, his motherland.

il silenzio preserva la saggezza

The true men of old were not afraid When they stood alone in their views. They had no mind to fight Tao. They did not try, by their own contriving, To help Tao along. These are the ones we call true men. Minds free, thoughts gone All that came out of them Came quiet, like the four seasons. 24

The origin of the great Way (the Tao) [is] the heavenly heart.... If you can be absolutely quiet then the heavenly heart will spontaneously manifest itself.124

Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course."68

Detach from intellectual knowledge ... and return to clarity and calm,

Just do what you do, and then leave: such is the Way of heaven.

Standing Alone Empty skies. And beyond, one hawk. Between river banks, two white gulls Laze, wind-drifted. Fit for an easy kill, To and fro, they follow contentment. Grasses all frost-singed. Spiderwebs Still hung. Heaven's loom of origins Tangling our human ways too, I stand Facing sorrow's ten thousand sources. Tu Fu

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

You can't find happiness; happiness finds you. We are completely passive in the act of our own contentment because it isn't an act. It's a result. For the first time in years, she was living an uncomplicated life, and happiness had resulted.

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies