A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss - Priest
August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

Yukio Mishima

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.

Charles Buxton

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred North Whitehead

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

Publilius Syrus

Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

James Freeman Clarke

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Horace

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

Dogen

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

Philip Neri

[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.

Vincent de Paul

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

Edward Young

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Max Ehrmann

Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Robert Dale Owen

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

Walter Scott

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