#serene

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. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#believes #constantly #death #dialogue #does

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

#elevates #enters #fills #inclinations #into

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#eighties #fairly #grow #i #intense

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#childlike #consuming #emerge #feeling #forms

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#after #calm #could #divorce #i

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#cat-people #cats #integrity #meditation #peace

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#change #day #day to day #days #dealing

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#needs #one thing #pure #serene #thing

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. ↗

— Rebecca West

#certain #great #great music #music #sense