#serene

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

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