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• Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Silence, Meditation

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• Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Truth, Serenity, Way

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• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  College, Doctors, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

  Zhuangzi

  Mirrors, Water, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious of sorrow and happiness - that is perfect virtue. One, without change - that is perfect repose. Without any obstruction - that is the perfection of the unconditioned. Holding no relations with the external world, - that is perfection of the negative state. Without blemish of any kind, - that is the perfection of purity.

  Zhuangzi

  Hate, Heart, Loss

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• The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.

  Zhuangzi

  Expression, Taoism, Doe

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• Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Brother, Blow, Humanity

  L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,

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• Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Holiday, Past, Arbor Day

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• Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

  Jules Michelet

  Sunday, Men, Joy

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• Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Peaceful, Depth, Calm

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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  Saint Augustine

  Happy Life, Catholic, Path

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

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• All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Progress, Awakening

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• From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.

  Pope Pius XI

  Evil, Soul, Suffering

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• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking About You, Certain, About Yourself

  "I never discuss my mistresses or my tailors" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

  Matthew Henry

  Song, Pain, Healing

  Matthew Henry (1828). “Communicant's Companion”, p.130

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• Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Passion, Writing

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.4867, Delphi Classics

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• You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Sleep, Nurse

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.123

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• Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

  Albertus Magnus

  Spiritual, Eye, Heart

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• The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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• Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, Children, Men

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• I've learned of life this bitter truth
  Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,
  But rather,
  Build within thy own soul
  Fortresses!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Gratitude, Wall, Soul

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• All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Flower, Mean

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.90, Penguin

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