Cynicism is the motivator of today's world, kindness is the reality of yesterday's world, empowerment is our de faux of tomorrows world. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I could give you peace. Imagine closing your eyes with no worries, no pain, no fears, no regrets, no appetites, and no… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Besides, he would know that I did it on purpose. (Serenity) Honey, I assure you, that man won’t think a thing. His… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Let’s face it, stillness is not exactly easy to come by in today’s culture. We are far more likely to be restless,… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
“In the seventh century, Isaac the Syrian wrote about 'stillness,' which in his writings has been summarized as 'a deliberate denial of… — Kenneth Bailey Copy Share Image
“Instead we experience reactive commentaries on thoughts and feelings. The ability to meet with stillness all that appears and disappears in awareness… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
“Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“For if serenity should be a hallmark of maturity, then impetuousness should be a hallmark of youth.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Only in stillness the wind Only from ice the flame. When all were Nameless, the wise will tell It was only by… — Jess E. Owen Copy Share Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
At the zoo, all the animals have a decent composure, except for the monkeys. You get the feeling man is very close… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
“I just want you to know , I love serenity, and peace; no craziness, no weird people turning up in the middle… — Yngwie J. Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live… — Douglas Pagels Copy Share Image
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse” — Marti Olsen Laney Copy Share Image
“When everything is so tranquil in nature, any need for anything disappears in the infinity of calmness.” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
God grant me the strength to accept the things I can't change and the courage to change the things I can. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood. — Francisco Franco Copy Share Image
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
