Best Serene Thoughts
211 Serene quotes by 178 unique authors
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I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away…
— William Saroyan
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Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
— Lisa See
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Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
— John Scalzi
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Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as…
— Kelley Armstrong
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind…
— James Joyce
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it…
— Betty Smith
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene,…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together.…
— Tess Gerritsen
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He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything…
— Katherine Mansfield
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I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another…
— Osamu Dazai
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We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our…
— Thomas Merton
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Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To…
— Ann-Marie MacDonald
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You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With…
— Julie Garwood
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the…
— Victor Hugo
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The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow…
— Sylvia Plath
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In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but…
— Nicolas Bouvier
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I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.
— Marianne Williamson
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True friendship is never serene.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder,…
— Elias Canetti
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What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O…
— Charles Dickens
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