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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Heaven, Doubt

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• If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Real, Looks, Want

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• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Friends, Spring, Good Friend

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• After a storm comes a calm.

  Matthew Henry

  Motivational, Uplifting, Peace

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.7628, Harper Collins

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• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  Alistair Cooke

  Spring, People, Generosity

  "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

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• The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Aim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

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• Send out love and harmony, put your mind and body in a peaceful place, and then allow the universe to work in the perfect way that it knows how.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 17, 2015

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• What moments divine , what rapture serene.

  Cole Porter

  Moments, Divine, Serene

  Song: Begin the Beguine

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Rising, Unrest

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Grace, Accepting

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

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• I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Self, House

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• When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Moving, Silence

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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grief, Heart, Winter

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Peace

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

  Plutarch

  Running, Peace, Mean

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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.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hurt, Let It Go, Tests

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, You Don't Know Me, Awake

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• There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

  Alain Badiou

  Paradise, Kind

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.

  E. B. White

  Peace, Thinking, People

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.161, Cornell University Press

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• Do your best and then relax.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Relax

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• The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.

  Gae Aulenti

  Design, Principles, Development

  Gae Aulenti, Margherita Petranzan (1997). “Gae Aulenti”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Trying, Innocence, Elegance

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Kings, Powerful

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

  Eva Burrows

  Waiting, Inner Beauty, Wasting Time

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