Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

William Gibson

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

Wayne Dyer

Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.

Robert M. Pirsig

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

Wilferd Peterson

Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.

Joseph Addison

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Elle Macpherson

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

Satish Kumar

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

Salman Rushdie

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Morihei Ueshiba

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Nhat Hanh

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.

Moliere

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Nancy Pearcey

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

Mark Victor Hansen

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

R. D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

Lou Pucci

He's just looking for who he is. Through that, I think he ends up kind of finding that there is no answer. And that he has to learn through his own experiences that there is no one thing that is going to help him or going to fix him.

Dillon Dougherty

He's hitting 3-woods and 5-woods into the holes, and he was still hitting it on the right side of the hole and controlling it. I'm hitting 5-iron and 7-iron, but it ends up on the wrong side of the hole, and he's in a lot better spot than I am.

Jeremy Crabtree

He's gonna be something special. He's gotten dramatically better throughout his senior season. If he ends up at Miami, he's one of those guys who could play pretty quickly.

Chris Morris

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

Samantha Harvey

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.

City Selby

I think we were doing without because we were making ends meet so to speak. We have gotten to the point where the ends are not meeting quite as well as it used to and we want to explore our options.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Justin Gray

I want to win so bad. Sometimes it ends up with me trying to force shots and trying to make something happen for us as a team. I feel like if I won't do it, nobody else will.

Brad Childress

The pain free (aspect) ends up being huge. His flexibility is better. You see him making a lot of reaching catches.