Quotes tagged ‘Serenity’

“Zoë: Sir, is there some information, we might maybe be lacking, as to why there's an entire fedsquad sitting on this train? Mal: It doesn't concern us. Zoë: It kinda concerns me. Mal: I mean they're not protecting the goods. If they were, they wouldn't be letting people past 'em. Zoë: You don't thin…”

— Tim Minear, Joss Whedon, Zoë Washburne, Gina Torres, imdb.com

“Serenity now. Insanity later.”

— Steve Koren, Lloyd Braun, Matt McCoy, imdb.com

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman was well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair wh…”

— Henri Matisse, amazon.com

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”

— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”

— Jack Kerouac, theculturium.com

“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”

— Thomas Pynchon, amazon.com

“She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.”

— Holly Black, amazon.com

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?”

— Anthony Trollope, amazon.com

“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

“Nothing waste more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it gets. Don't take things too seriously. Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.”

— Douglas Pagels, amazon.com

“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”

— Stephen King, amazon.com

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com