#seren

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

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity

You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#change #day #day to day #days #dealing

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#anger #rage #serenity #anger

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#needs #one thing #pure #serene #thing

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#diplomatic #george #george clooney #i #inner

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#big #center #eye #fortunate #hear

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ↗

— Johnny Miller

#knowing #pretty #pretty good #serenity #shot

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #inspirational

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. ↗