S Quotes
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“Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.”
Source: Shoeless Joe
“Serenity is an inward quietness.”
“Serenity is born of simplicity.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Serenity is born of simplicity,
Insecurity is born of clutter.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Serenity is found when wading into it.”
Source: The Cool Part of His Pillow
“Serenity is inner peace amid chaos and trouble, not their absence.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.”
“Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.”
“Serenity is not the conclusion of a soul journey, it is the acceptance of being on a soul journey.”
Source: Your Insight and Awareness Book: Your life is an expedition to discover the truth of yourself
“Serenity is the end - and serenity is also the means - by which you live effectively.”
“Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.”
“Serenity is the guard that soothes your soul and keeps your mind at ease.”
“Serenity is what liberates you when chaos comes to imprison you..Serenity is when you meet yourself ...knowing you have made peace with the impossible."
.....Jayita Bhattacharjee”
“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
“Serenity lies in solitude.”
“Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.”
“Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.”
“Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.”
“Serenity shrinks as luxury grows.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Serenity stems from simplicity,
Fear festers in frivolity.
Peace stems from patience,
Insecurity festers in apathy.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Serenity takes root when you let go, with grace, of what no longer serves the heart.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.”
“Sereno só de me abandonar sobre você.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Seres humanos são péssimos em aceitar incertezas, então, diante delas, fazemos suposições com base na maneira como imaginamos o mundo.”
“Seres tan encariñados con su libertad como los seres humanos saben cómo volver a plantear casi cualquier tema. Si hay una cosa en la que realmente nos mostramos magistrales, es en empujar los límites, inventar estrategias, encontrar caminos para rodear las verdades más impías, tomar a la vida por las solapas y sacudirla sin piedad. Es cierto que la vida tiende a devolver los golpes, pero eso nunca ha bastado para deternos.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Serge nodded. 'And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You're chemically biased against violence and job applications.”
Source: Pineapple Grenade
“Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.”
“Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.”
Source: Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)
“Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He’d seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he’d never seen anyone bluff with no cards.”
Source: Men at Arms
“Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.”
“Sergeant, Kindly has probably not lain with a woman since the night of his coming of age, and that time was probably with a whore his father or uncle bought for the occasion. Women can tell these things. The man's repressed, in all the worst ways.'
'Oh, and what are the good ways of being repressed?'
'For a man? Well, decorum for one, as in not taking advantage of your rank. Listen closely now, if you dare. All real acts of chivalry are forms of repressed behavior.”
Source: Reaper's Gale
“Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.”
Source: Small War of Sergeant Donkey
“Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.”
“Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries’ worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches.”
Source: Birds Without Wings
“Sergeant Til: Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you today.”
Source: The Dragoneers
“Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.”
Source: Live Echoes
“Sergeant Wright blinked back in disbelief. Rain drops began to fall, or so he thought. He wiped the wetness off his face, looked down to his hand and realised they weren’t raindrops. They were sprays of blood.
“It took some time before Sergeant Wright could make out the glistening steels soaring and zigzagging in the air. His nose picked up the most disturbing scent, the smell of blood mingled with steel.”
Source: The Keeper of My Kin: The Constant Companion Tales
“Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.”
Source: City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier
“Sergei, what are you checking for?” I asked. At first I thought it was funny. He moved quickly and efficiently, making a clean sweep of each room with me trailing behind him.
“I am checking to make sure we are alone,” he informed me. “You could be spy.”
“Sergei, I’m not a spy. There is no one here in my apartment besides you and me. You know where I work.” I tried to assure him, but I didn’t know what else I could do to convince him otherwise.”
Source: A Rose for Sergei
“Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many people are underserved by transportation today, like those with disabilities, and how self driving cars will transform their lives. Or the wasted time you sit in your car every day commuting to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries that could be avoided.”
“Sergey described the mighty furnaces and plants rising up from the steppes. “How far we’ve come. How much work there is still to do!” She would have to see it herself one day, with her own eyes. Florence reread the last line with a turbulent flip in her stomach. Was this an invitation?”
“Sergilenme, teşhir edilme mecburiyeti bizzat bedenin yabancılaşmasına yol açar. Beden, optimize edilmesi gereken bir sergi nesnesi şeklinde şeyleşir. Bu bedenin içinde ikamet etmek mümkün değildir. Onu sergilemek, böylece de sömürmek gerekir.”
Source: Transparenzgesellschaft
“Sergio ha descubierto para su mal, que bíblicamente hablando, el tiempo del trabajo es el tiempo de la condena. Se repite y multiplica de una manera muy diversa. El oficinista que espera ansioso la hora de salida de su oficina, o el fin de semana, o sus vacaciones anuales y más tarde su jubilación, y el preso que comparte una condena fija, comparten una misma espantosa paradoja: en nombre de la vida, quieren que el tiempo pase, sin percatarse de que así el tiempo que anhelan perder es el único tiempo suyo, el tiempo de su vida, un tiempo que nadie les podrá devolver. Un día lo descubren, y entonces ya no pueden dormir en paz.”
Source: Wolves' Dream
“Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.”
“Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.”
“Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this style, but in Memphis, he kicks it up towards art, playing with the authentic touches to add some hits of Fosse, or riffs from modern dance that take us just that extra step we need.”
“Seria excessiu pensar que tornaria a enamorar-se'n, però sí que es veia capaç de revifar l'afecte —si bufava esforçadament, les flames reviscolarien.”
Source: L'estiu que comença
“Seria Noé um psicopata?
"Qualquer pessoa, exceto psicopatas, não ficaram maus depois. Nos Estados Unidos, temos uma legião de soldados que sofrem pelo o que fizeram na guerra do Iraque. Qualquer pessoa, mesmo quem apertou o botão da bomba de Hiroshima, por mais que justifique ordens, uma dia a consciência pesa. Exceto, um psicopata. Diferente da bomba de Hiroshima, Noé teve tempo para pensar e voltar atrás.”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)
“Seria o melhor que a ciência consegue fazer para conciliar ciência e religião: dizer que Adão era, na verdade, uma levedura, e que a costela era uma metáfora para o caroço, Eva brotou de um caroso da levedura. Lembrando que viemos todos de organismo unicelulares como esses, por isso, levedura é largamente usada em laboratórios para estudar genética, evolução e mais.”
Source: Seria a Bíblia um livro científico?: Por que a Bíblia Sagrada não deve ser levada a sério e como argumentar contra ela (Estudos Bíblicos para ateus 2)