“Wise people, after they have listened to the laws, become serene, like a deep, smooth, and still lake.” — Various Copy Share Image
The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a… — Khalil Copy Share Image
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive,… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.” — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent,… — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The variety of minds served the economy of nature in many ways. The Creator, who designed the human brain for activity, had… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the… — Peter Gallagher Copy Share Image
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene. — Umar Copy Share Image
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
The pure serene of memory inone man, A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters ofthe world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
