It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. — Sun Tzu 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
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
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
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
Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To me, I like and understand ritual and I think it is important. Things that we do that give us comfort are… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life— the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the… — Gerhard Tersteegen 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
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but… — Ruth Perry 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
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we… — James H. Austin 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
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
As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. — Lord Byron 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
The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out… — Frances Mayes 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
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. — Paramahansa Yogananda 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
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves &… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
