Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As… — Frederick Lenz 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
“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
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation. — John Gay 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
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 serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an… — Sanai 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
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds. — Bhartrhari 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
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene… — Janet Malcolm 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
