Serenity Quotes - Page 12

• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

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• You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Confidence, Sweat, People

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• One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience, in the looks of those who surround us. One would wish to find the strength to beautify one's thoughts and to purify one's heart. It is everyone's hope and expectation to live in serenity and to plod along in transparency: the palms of the hands patiently directed towards heaven, at the heart of all this modernity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Men, Mirrors

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “Islam, the West and the Challenges of Modernity”, p.19, Kube Publishing Ltd

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• Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

  Michael Douglas

  Rights, Foundation, World

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• The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Men, Complacency

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

  Albert Outler

  Believe, Age, Aging

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• And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

  Georges Simenon

  Eye, Men, Shadow

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• You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Children, Men, Appreciate

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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• We all, everyone one of us, carry a star inside our chests. ...Light and darkness are always side-by-side. If you show even the slightest fear or tears to the darkness, it will immediately swell and come attacking, and swallow up the light. Serenity, in order to defeat the darkness and dark souls, you must keep the star inside your chest burning brightly at all times. That is your most important charge.

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• Where is the peace in more is better? This idea keeps us exclusively in the physical domain. You can replace the more is better belief with an inner serenity that doesn't need more to be acceptable. There is no peace in more is better, and if it doesn't being peace to your life, then it's something you want to discard.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Ideas, Needs

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

  Abram L. Sachar

  Goal, Democracy, Ease

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• Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of the Lord. When I paint, I try to represent the beauty of God's creation in my art. Many modern painters see the world as a jumble of random lines and shapes with no divine beauty or order, and their works reflect their viewpoint. Because I see God's peacefulness, serenity, and contentment, I work to capture those feelings on the canvas. My vision of God defines my vision of the world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Divine Beauty, Mountain Peaks

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• I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

  Mark Tobey

  Believe, Meditation, Action

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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Courage, Honesty, Attitude

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• Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

  Gilles Clement

  Attitude, Acceptance, Garden

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• If a house has a center of gravity, first of all there is stability. From stability there is serenity. I think this leads to a pleasant feeling

  Junzo Yoshimura

  Thinking, House, Feelings

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• I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Stay Strong, Order, Stay Positive

  "Authenticity and Fiction in the Russian Literary Journey, 1790-1840". Book by Andreas Schönle, p. 108, 2000.

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Retirement, Florida

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• All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

  Marc Chagall

  Reality, World, Interiors

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

  Mark Tobey

  Space, Creative, Mind

  Mark Tobey, J. François Mathey (1962). “Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961 Whitechapel Gallery, London 1962”

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• The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Honesty, Attitude

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Silence, Quality

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• When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Mean, Blow, Reality

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• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

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