Quotes by Serenity If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good. Iyanla Vanzant serenity real looks Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. Jack Kornfield serenity grasping world This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity. Jack Vance serenity art fall The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. Jack Kerouac serenity tea joy The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. Jackson Pollock serenity energy artist The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives. Henry David Thoreau serenity poetry disappointment Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. Jane Addams serenity dignity age So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect. Jared Leto serenity common people Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Jawaharlal Nehru serenity war peace Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru serenity peace people 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. Jasper Fforde serenity evil kindness In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us. Jeffrey R. Holland serenity forgiving order God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer. Jennifer Weiner serenity law mother I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity. Jessica Simpson serenity kind people The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. Joan D. Chittister serenity yield perspective 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. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger favorite-words serenity peace 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. John Armstrong buoyancy serenity way Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know. John Edward Williams serenity littles book Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. John Donne serenity joy heaven Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult. John Ortberg serenity doubt mean «1234567891011»
