#serenity

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#peace #religion #serenity #inspirational

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#stoicism #terrorism #terrorism

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#after #die #ever #felt #going

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#countenance #fading #flourishing #immortal #never

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#children #commitment #environment #equilibrium #journey

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

— Andre Gide

#me #rising #serenity #sole #suits

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. ↗

— Keith Miller

#first time #i #i have learned #learned #like

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

— Sylvia Kristel

#elegance #i #innocence #only #portray

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