Quotes about Serenity

A single farm-house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles' radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.

We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation.

I like sleeping a lot.

Proceed calmly in life.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

Taoist philosophy, "Rest is prior to motion and stillness prior to action.