"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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"Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."
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"Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender."
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"Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned."
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"What moments divine , what rapture serene."
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"Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want."
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"From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength."
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"A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity in misfortune and peace of mind among worries. A life confined to what is personal is likely, sooner or later, to become unbearably painful; it is only by windows into a larger and less fretful cosmos that the more tragic parts of life become endurable."
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"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
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"Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages."
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"It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it."
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"Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door."
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"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution."
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"If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?"
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"Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind."
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