Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform."
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Serenity
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now"
Gabrielle Bernstein
Author, Speaker
"The key to serenity is trusting that the universe has your back."
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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."
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"If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity."
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"Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance."
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"Rule your mind with serenity rather than with force and manipulation."
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"Do your best and then relax."
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"Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good."
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"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"
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"Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world."
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"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."
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"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity."
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"If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity."
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"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."
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"There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind."
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"Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven."
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"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world."
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"I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity."
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"Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony."
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"The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy."
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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
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"The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age."
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