#serene

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

— Rebecca West

#certain #great #great music #music #sense

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #pragmatic #serene #truth #beauty

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#evil #good #goodness #magnificent #makes

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#above #bears #blazing #hope #passively

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#grow #more #noble #pass #serene

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#arrive #childhood #dream #feel #happy

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ↗

— George Gissing

#bad weather #beauty #blood #body #day

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#does #fancy #head #invade #keeps

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#bright #grave #lead #lovely #night

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#age #because #brought #buildings #chaos