Serenity Quotes

I long for the days when I was One with the one who was the only one I could be One with.

~ Faith Tigere

when I finally begin to driftinto sleepyour memory is the...firstand the moonlightthe last, to kiss my face.

~ Sanober Khan

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility.

~ Angelica Hopes

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

~ J.r. Rim

The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.

~ Debasish Mridha

God has given us our own unique paths to follow in life. What's interesting is no one's journey is ever the same.

~ Courtney Brooks

You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.

~ Courtney Brooks

I love the vastness of the ocean. I love its serenity, tranquility, humility, and purifying power.

~ Debasish Mridha

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

~ Michel De Montaigne

In the end we will realise that we only came to earth to love

~ Mimi Novic

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.

~ Toba Beta

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

~ Victoria Moran

Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won’t be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation some fact of my life unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.

~ Alcoholics Anonymous

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

~ Keith Johnstone

What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.

~ David W. Jones

It took greater energy to be able to focus when heardthe voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.

~ Toba Beta

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

~ G.k. Chesterton

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

~ Patrick Lindsay

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

~ Jay Woodman

In the immediate vicinity, there might well be stability and peace. In the garden, a breeze may be swaying the branches of the plum tree and dust may slowly be gathering on the bookshelves in the living room. But we are aware that such serenity does not do justice to the chaotic and violent fundamentals of existence and hence, after a time, it has a a habit of growing worrisome in its own way.

~ Alain De Botton

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.

~ Aleksandra Layland

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death.

~ Frank Herbert

A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.

~ Inazo Nitobe

The only people I am aware of who don’t have troubles are gathered in peaceful, little neighborhoods. There is never a care, never a moment of stress and never an obstacle to ruin a day. All is calm. All is serene. Most towns have at least one such worry-free zone. We call them cemeteries.

~ Steve Goodier

As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light—it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity.

~ C. Joybell C.

There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s all the moments you missed out on.

~ Melyssa Winchester

However, what he wanted was impossible: the serenity of the Gods cannot be achieved by the sword.

~ Andrew Ashling

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

~ Emily Post

The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.

~ Marie Sabillo

What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?

~ Jared Brock

For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.

~ Donald Hankey

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

~ Ayn Rand

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

~ Mel Gibson

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

~ Luis Barragán