#serenity

She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She’s always ready to laugh. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational-woman #laughing #mystery #serenity

I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #letting-go #peace #serenity

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#cheerful #curiosity #endows #form #generosity

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #inspirational

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

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#peace #poetry #serenity #dance

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. ↗

— Jane Austen

#serenity #jane-austen

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#change #life #reality #serenity #change

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. ↗

— Dan Brown

#serenity-prayer #strength #change

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off! ↗

— Sarah Ferguson

#wisdom #change