#serenity

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

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

— Johnny Miller

#knowing #pretty #pretty good #serenity #shot

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#self-worth #serenity #faith

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. ↗

— Keith Johnstone

#faith #peace-of-mind #serenity #faith

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life. ↗

— Piero Gheddo

#attention #christianity #compassion #empathy #giving

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. ↗

— Toby Keith

#age #prayer #serenity #taught #us

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#combine #feeling #garden #joy #must

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#accept #cannot #courage #difference #god

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art #balance #calming #depressing #devoid