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<center>"Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are."
-- Chinese Proverb

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning
can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day --
like writing a poem or saying a prayer."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."
-- Hans Margolius

"The ground we walk on,
the plants and creatures,
the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations --
each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy,
bound together by cosmic harmony."
-- Ruth Bernhard

"When was the last time you spent
a quiet moment just doing nothing --
just sitting and looking at the sea,
or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs,
or waves rippling on a pond,
a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"
-- Ralph Marston

"Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance."
-- Unknown

"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

"Perhaps the word for the feeling I mean is serenity,
a high acceptance, a recognition
that Heracleitus's doctrine of eternal flow
is a great truth,
and while we may not, in ourselves,
find the moment when
the one element changes into the other,
that moment will come
and the consciousness of its inevitability
may give us courage in adversity,
and balance in good fortune."
-- Robertson Davies</center>