Quotes about Serenity

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

I am very far away from being angry. I really don't get angry most of the time. I am a patient person.

Let us have peace.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

Do not cumber yourself with fruitless pains to mend and remedy remote effects; let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate