#serenity

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #poetry #reason #serenity #faith

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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

— Isaac Barrow

#countenance #fading #flourishing #immortal #never

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#am #feel #finding #i #i am

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

— Andre Gide

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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

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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

— Sylvia Kristel

#elegance #i #innocence #only #portray

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#kindness #serenity #compassion

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#everything #feeling #nothing #serenity #time