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Quotes About Serenity

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
The most important thing is to keep the Soul aloft
~ Gustav Flaubert
But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.
~ Gustav Mahler
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
~ Gustave Flaubert
What could be better than to sit besides the fire with a book and a glowing lamp while the wind beats outside the windows...
~ Gustave Flaubert
And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?
~ Gustave Flaubert
Coming joys, like tropical shores, throw over the immensity before them their inborn softness, an odorous wind, and we are lulled by this intoxication without a thought of the horizon that we do not even know.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I'd like to be in love like this description, wouldn't you? ...they moved among the carriages, the crowds, the noise, oblivious of everything but themselves, hearing nothing, as if they had been walking together in the country on a bed of dead leaves.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Izgledalo joj je da poneka mesta na zemlji sama po sebi stvaraju sre?u, kao što neka biljka uspeva na jednom zemljištu, a na drugom ne.
~ Gustave Flaubert
And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths between stands of grain that rose to his knees, the sun on his shoulders and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the night's bliss, his spirit at peace and his flesh content, he would ride on his way ruminating his happiness, like someone who keeps savoring, hours later, the fragrance of the truffles he has eaten for dinner.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I live absolutely like an oyster.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A man, on the contrary, should he not know everything, excel in manifold activities, initiate you into the energies of passion, the refinements of life, all mysteries? But this one taught nothing, knew nothing, wished nothing. He thought her happy; and she resented this easy calm, this serene heaviness, the very happiness she gave him.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The tenderness of the old days came back to their hearts, full and silent as the flowing river, with the softness of the perfume of the syringas, and threw across their memories shadows more immense and more sombre than those of the still willows that lengthened out over the grass.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Casi siempre descansaban en un prado, con Deauville a la izquierda, Le Havre a la derecha y enfrente el mar abierto. Estaba reluciente de sol, liso como un espejo, tan manso que apenas se oía su murmullo; piaban, escondidos, los gorriones, y todo esto bajo la inmensa cúpula del cielo.
~ Gustave Flaubert
La tendresse des anciens jours leur revenait au coeur, abondante et silencieuse comme la rivière qui coulait, avec autant de mollesse qu'en apportait le parfum des seringas, et projetait dans leur souvenir des ombres plus démesurées et plus mélancoliques que celles des saules immobiles qui s'allongeaient sur l'herbe.
~ Gustave Flaubert
There was no fire in the fireplace, the clock was still ticking, and Emma felt vaguely amazed that all those things should be so calm when there was such turmoil inside her.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Emma, who had taken his arm, bent lightly against his shoulder, and she looked at the sun's disc shedding afar through the mist his pale splendour.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Frederick expected that he would have felt spasms of joy; but the passions grow pale when we find ourselves in an altered situation; and, as he no longer saw Madame Arnoux in the environment wherein he had known her, she seemed to him to have lost some of her fascination; to have degenerated in some way that he could not comprehend—in fact, not to be the same. He was astonished at the serenity of his own heart./... sentimentele sl?besc cînd le schimbi locul...
~ Gustave Flaubert
But shouldn't a man know everything, excel at a host of different activities, initiate you into the intensities of passion, the refinements of life, all its mysteries? Yet this man taught her nothing, knew nothing, wished for nothing. He thought she was happy; and she resented him for that settled calm, that ponderous serenity, that very happiness which she herself brought him.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Le parecía q algunos lugares en el mundo debían producir felicidad, como una planta propia de un suelo y q no prospera en otra parte, quien pudiera asomarse al balcón de los chalets suizos o encerrar sin tristeza en una casa de campo escocesa!
~ Gustave Flaubert
Cosa c'è di meglio, in realtà, che starsene la sera accanto al fuoco con un bel libro in mano, mentre il vento sbatte contro le persiane e arde il lume della lampada?
~ Gustave Flaubert
Un rideau de flocons blancs ininterrompu miroitait sans cesse en descendant vers la terre; il effaçait les formes, poudrait les choses d'une mousse de glace; et l'on n'entendait plus, dans le grand silence de la ville calme et ensevelie sous l'hiver, que ce froissement vague, innommable et flottant de la neige qui tombe, plutôt sensation que bruit , entremêlement d'atomes légers qui semblaient emplir l'espace, couvrir le monde.
~ Guy de Maupassant
YaÅŸlanmak, size yaÅŸam katan, sizi seven, sizi okÅŸayan, size hoÅŸ sözler söyleyip kalbinizi ?s?tan ve sizi rahatlatan insanlarla güzeldir.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Ennek a reggelnek tiszta fényében szívük egymás hangját visszhangozta.
~ Guy de Maupassant