#serenity

Be calm. God awaits you at the door. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#death-and-dying #serenity #death

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

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#learning #love #serenity #love

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

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#meditation #serenity #spirituality #beauty

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#accentuate #actually #average #better #blood

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. ↗

— John Donne

#despair #heaven #hell #joy #serenity

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#books #learning #love #serenity #sweet

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