#seren

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#childlike #consuming #emerge #feeling #forms

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#after #calm #could #divorce #i

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#handle #how #i #know #me

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

#came #days #depths #feel #forget

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#kindness #serenity #compassion

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#everything #feeling #nothing #serenity #time

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you? ↗

— Tom Xavier

#future #kidlit #novel #serendipity #ya

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn ↗

— Jay Woodman

#aware #awareness #choose #choosing-peace #choosing-serenity

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance. ↗

— Ariel Sabar

#love-story #romance #serendipity #love