What moments divine , what rapture serene.

What moments divine, what rapture serene. Till clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted and now when I hear people curse…

— Beegie Adair

Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

— Chris Evert

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with…

— Muriel Spark

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest…

— John Burroughs

“Toa msaada katika jamii iliyosaidia kukulea ulipokuwa mdogo.”

— Enock Maregesi

The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to…

— James H. Austin

“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”

— Enock Maregesi

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

— Swami Satchidananda

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have…

— Kamand Kojouri

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even…

— Anonymous

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.…

— Washington Irving

The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and…

— Lissa Rankin

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

— George Eliot

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong