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Letter "S" » serenity
«I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.»
«I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.»
«Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.»
Author: Grenville Kleiser
| Keywords:
asset, attracts, burdens, contentment, depression, lightens, route, serenity
«Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.»
«God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Change,
Courage,
Faith,
God,
Life,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
accept, change, courage, difference, God knows how, grant, serenity, take for granted, wisdom
«God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other»
«Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| About:
Beauty,
Death,
Life
| Keywords:
calm down, drank, ebbing, evening star, serenity, warning, whiten, whitened, whitens
«I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.»
Author: Gertrude Stein
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affectionate, appeals, business methods, contend, excitements, family business, in short, middle class, respectable, serenity, The Middle Class
«God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other»
«In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.»
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