Quotes about Serenity
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
- William Wordsworth
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
- Thomas Merton
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
- Laurence Sterne
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
- William Wordsworth
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
- Walt Whitman
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
- William Hazlitt
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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
- Barbara Johnson
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.
- Teresa of Avila
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
- Laurence Sterne
May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have God, you lack nothing: God alone will do.
- Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All.
- Thomas a Kempis