Quotes about Serenity

It is possible, as I have learned again and again, to be in one's place, in such company, wild or domestic, and with such pleasure, that one cannot think of another place that one would prefer to be—or of another place at all. One does not miss or regret the past, or fear or long for the future. Being there is simply all, and is enough. Such times give one the chief standard and the chief reason for one's work.

Make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

He has come into a wakefulness as quiet as sleep.

One of the best things you can do in this world is take a nap in the woods.

Look in and see him looking out. He is not always quiet, but there have been times when happiness has come to him, unasked, like the stillness on the water that holds the evening clear while it subsides - and he let go what he was not.

Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.

in the woods the tree frogs were going smelling rain in the air they sounded like toy music boxes that were hard to turn and the honeysuckle come

the long sleep that outlasts love

Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

We can never have enough of nature.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.