Quotes about Serenity

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.

I can't imagine anything nicer than to sit out in the moonlight and listen to music—

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

But for a moment I had sat on the turf somewhere high above the flow of the sea and the sound of the woods, had seen the house, the garden, and the waves breaking. The old nurse who turns the pages of the picture book had stopped and had said, 'Look. This is the truth.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

He stepped aside to the ledge where the vine leaves yet lay strewn about, collected two or three, and stood wiping his hands upon them, with his back to the light.

Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.