Quotes About Serenity

não te lamentes com as dificuldades fixadas pelo destino no presente nem temas ou procures fugir do que para ti está reservado no futuro.

love mildness, and moderation, and gravity:

Soy afortunado porque, a pesar de haberme ocurrido eso, permanezco sin pena y no me rompo por el presente ni temo el porvenir.« Porque

Thou mayest live out thy life with none to constrain thee in the utmost peace of mind even though the whole world cry out against thee what they will

How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness. Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people's help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight—not straightened.

49. To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of the things which are assigned to thee by the common nature;

The cohesiveness and beauty that intelligence lends to the face—that's what the body needs. But it should come without effort.

5. How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness. Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people's help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight—not straightened.

People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within.

As for thyself, thou hast to do with neither. Go thy ways then well pleased and contented: for so is He that dismisseth thee.

The closer a person is to calm, the closer they are to strength.

The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

No mostrar nunca la apariencia de cólera ni de ninguna otra pasión

Love only what befalls thee and is spun for thee by fate. For what can be more befitting for thee?

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, thou wilt gain more command over it.

Habite en ti la serenidad, la ausencia de necesidad de ayuda externa y de la tranquilidad que procuran otros. Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.

Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.-

I do what is mine to do, the rest does not disturb me.

He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, and with no loose ends.

How easy it is to drive away or obliterate from one's mind every impression which is troublesome or alien, and then to be immediately in perfect calm. p36

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul

This is the mark of a perfect character, to pass through each day as if it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, without pretence.

Borra los desvaríos de tus fantasías, repitiéndote sin cesar: pende de mi en este momento el que no haya en mi alma el menor vicio, deseo ni absolutamente ninguna agitación. Antes bien, veo todas las cosas como son y uso de cada una según su merito, No olvides esa facultad que te otorgo la naturaleza.