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• Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Broken, Profound, Inner Peace

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Passion, Today

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• Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Grief, Age

  Letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888.

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• The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Sleep, Expression

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• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Tea, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Rocks, Giving

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.82, SPCK

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Addiction, Trying, Loving Myself

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• Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

  Saigyō

  Moon, Sight, Mind

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• Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

  Laozi

  Path, Steps, Detachment

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• The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Critics

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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• Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a serenity and a joy in being a part the rest of life on Earth. Not apart from it, but a part of it.

  Sylvia Earle

  Rest Of Life, Knowing, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Self, Rushing, Secret

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• 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

  Book, Littles, Sometimes

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

  Emily Post

  Golf, Average, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Yield, Perspective, Achievement

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• Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God,
  trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?

  Mother Teresa

  Path, Losing, Trouble

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• There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Fear, Humble

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• As long as you do not feel the serenity in the body, in each and every joint, there is no chance for emancipation. You are in bondage. So while you are sweating and aching, let your heart be light and let it fill your body with gladness. You are not only becoming free, but you are also being free. What is not to be glad about? The pain is temporary. The freedom is permanent.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Pain, Heart, Light

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

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• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Heart, Meditation

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.419, Mango Media Inc.

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• I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.

  Georges Braque

  Believe, Discovery, Intellectual

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity. ... A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do

  James E. Faust

  Daughter, Heart, Mean

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• I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.

  Francis Galton

  Math, Errors, Self

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (p. 66)

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