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211 Serene quotes by 178 unique authors

There is no just and serene criticism as yet. — Henry David Thoreau
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. — Rebecca West
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. — William Wordsworth
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine… — Minoru Yamasaki
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along. — Paramahansa Yogananda
As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where… — Stephen King
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. — Logan Pearsall Smith
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the… — James Allen
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their… — Henry Miller
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift… — Dorothy Parker
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I… — Maya Angelou
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I… — Sarah Monette
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person,… — Antonio Tabucchi
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And… — Thomas Gray
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. — Nhat Hanh
She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly… — Malorie Blackman
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. — Holly Black
While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of… — Tarun J. Tejpal
It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don't spin it… — James Joyce
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life… — Edmund Burke
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk… — H P Lovecraft
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in… — Swami Satchidananda
They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries… — Spencer W. Kimball
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of… — George Eliot

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