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Quotes About Serenity

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.
~ Roger Caras
It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.
~ Roger Zelazny
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me.
~ Roger Zelazny
I just want to sleep the sleep of ages, to know again the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, to hear the songs the stars sing on the shores of the great sea.
~ Roger Zelazny
I had run out of causes and was close as I ever might be to peace.
~ Roger Zelazny
Rockefeller did not show any anxiety about the absence of security
~ Ron Chernow
It often saves me much annoyance.
~ Ron Chernow
No matter what the excitement, John retained his quietude and smiled on all occasions.
~ Ron Chernow
It took Rockefeller time to shed his obsessive concern for Standard Oil and allow himself to be lulled by the restful sea spirit.
~ Ron Chernow
Jodie didn't need it explained to her that her father had been one of the good guys. She knew. She was moving with the serenity of a person who had loved the old guy all her life, and had been loved back. There was nothing she had neglected to tell him, nothing he had neglected to tell her. People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.
~ Lee Child
I can't worry about something I can't change.
~ Lee Child
A maintenance dose. It would keep her asleep all night. It would keep her warm, and gentle, and relaxed, and at peace, and cradled, and happy.
~ Lee Child
The dawn came up entirely gold, with no hint of pink or purple. The sky was a rinsed blue, like an old shirt washed a thousand times.
~ Lee Child
He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace and quiet was a full-time, nerve-rattling job.
~ Lee Siegel
To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.
~ Lee Smith
Large tomatoes and inner tranquillity are a bewitching combination.
~ Leif Enger
In the distant past, Muslim doctors advised nervous people to look up at the sky. Forget the tight earth. Imagine that the sky, all of it, belonged to them alone. Crescent, low moon, more stars than the eyes looking up at them. But the sky was free, without any price, no one I knew spoke of it, no one competed for it. Instead, one by one those who could afford it began to sleep indoors in cool air-conditioned rooms, away from the mosquitoes and the flies...
~ Leila Aboulela
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
She was thinking of many things, for to her the thread of life was not broken by Death, but kept winding along calmly and evenly.
~ Leonid Andreyev
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace
~ Lermontov Mikhail
A mind at peace with all below,   A heart whose love is innocent!
~ Leslie Pockell
Consider anything, only don't cry!
~ Lewis Carroll
I'm sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.
~ Lewis Carroll