Quotes about Serenity
Patient endurance attends to all things.
— Teresa of Avila
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
— Henry David Thoreau
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
— Oscar Wilde
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
— Corrie Ten Boom
The silence was an intense roar.
— Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
— Jack Kerouac
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
— Jack Kerouac
After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...
— Jack Kerouac
So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits and say "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace" and those foggy peaks answer back mutely Yes
— Jack Kerouac
Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears.
— Jack Kerouac
But let a perpetual smile of peace and satisfaction On your lips Be a symbol of the decision To think happiness (equanimity) Since everything that happens Happens in your head
— Jack Kerouac