quotes about Peacefulness

last updated: November 28, 2023

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
-- Joan Z. Borysenko

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A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
-- Rita Mae Brown

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“Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.”
“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
“My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled. I knew there was a price for this, but I did not know there was as large a price as it turned out to be.”
“Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.”
“The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii...”
“Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.”
“I always go for confident girls!”
“All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.”
“Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.”
“Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.”