Serenity Quotes

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it, ... But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.

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