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"As I sit absentmindedly bystanders stop and ask. Can they not see that I am in serenity?" »Catherine Marie Wright
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is." »Thomas Szasz
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"If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway." »Mother Teresa
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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." »Joseph Addison
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"Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity." »Moses Hasid
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"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without." »Joseph Addison
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"Viewed as a whole, a forest radiates beauty, serenity and safety. Viewed from within, misplaced focus reaps the fabricated chaos of trees." »Richard Guerry
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"As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity." »James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"
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"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." »Beverly Sills
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"In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause." »Longfellow
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"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." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Lord 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." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"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." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"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." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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