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• Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spiritual, War, Luxury

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• For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

  Yukio Mishima

  Creativity, Artist, Ill Health

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• 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

  Order, Forgiving, Needs

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• There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?

  Michael Morpurgo

  Eye, Men, Trying

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.84, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

  Taylor Swift

  Taken, Ambition, Knowing

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• Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Truth, Way, Taught

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• Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.'

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Believe, Mean, Storm

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• In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

  William C. Menninger

  Loyalty, Fear, Reality

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• Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

  Desire-Joseph Mercier

  Sadness, Giving, Suffering

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• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Meditation, Mind

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

  Heber J. Grant

  Jesus, Heart, Judging

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• Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

  Jack Kornfield

  World, Grasping, Unfolding

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• I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Meditation, Selfless

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• 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

  Art, Fall, Elements

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

  Hosea Ballou

  Sleep, Welcome, Conditions

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• Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

  Eva Mendes

  Meditation, Mind, Balance

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• As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.29, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

  Stuart Wilde

  Change, Journey, Expression

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• Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

  Douglas Pagels

  Regret, Worry, Energy

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Mind

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• Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

  William John Locke

  Stars, Fire, Individual

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no idle hours; there are only idle people. In true righteousness there is serenity, but there is an array of reminders that the "sacred present" is packed with possibilities which are slipping by us, which are going away from us each moment.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Balance, Going Away

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• Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Order, Leaving

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.21, University of Texas Press

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• Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.

  Edna Ferber

  Memorable, Writing, Done

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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