Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
Cross over children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the Light. There is peace and serenity in the Light.
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.
And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.
You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.
Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.
Do your best and then relax.
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
I'm actually big into meditation, transcendental meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance, but all the other stuff this is gonna sound cliché. . . serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I'm like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life's ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also it helps with creativity.
A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.