Quotes About Serene

aging quite well, with the soft glow of one who knew little stress.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.

I never saw a discontented tree.

There is nothing more eloquent in Nature than a mountain stream.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.

Down home, in our quiet backwoods area, it looks like an untroubled life.

When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878

Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?

I am calm, as people are whose conscience are clear.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

The Antioch Beach library was like something out of a good dream, if you're the kind of person who dreams about libraries, which I am ...

They are clean, dressed and coiffed neatly, and seem serene. They look and act like "normal" shoppers, gamblers, dawdlers, and visitors, but "they" are solo homeless women—mainly over forty years of age and surprisingly well educated—who blend into polite society.

Dreams, stories, art- they were, and are, instruments of divine intervention that molded you into a woman who dwells in possibility: who now feels herself serene with comfort and strength.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.