Serenity Quotes · Page 28

“Explore the tranquillity of the mountains, and find courage. Allow serenity to radiate from the mountains and change your atmosphere.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business…

— Jeremy Collier

“God grant me the serentiy to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Serenity is not the conclusion of a soul journey, it is the acceptance of being on a soul journey.”

— Lorraine Nilon

“Don't let the way people are, disrupt your day. Understand them for who they are, the good & the bad, but keep…

— Ace Antonio Hall

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I…

— Joss Whedon

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying…

— Pam Houston

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions,…

— Plutarch

When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom.…

— Pema Chodron

When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us…

— Francois Fenelon

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Grace and poise are, because these two attributes precede the opportunity to deploy any other skill. We must possess, as Voltaire once…

— Anonymous

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little…

— Frank Herbert

Serenity: when you are at peace with yourself, others and most important God. Its when you dont have to wear different mask…

— Anonymous

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these…

— Socrates

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more,…

— Katrina Kenison

“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an…

— T.F. Hodge

Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the…

— Frederick Lenz

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“All who enter even a little into that state of being present will experience a calmness and a degree of ecstasy which…

— W. Timothy Gallwey

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Ayn Rand

“Quiet reflection is often the mother of deep understanding. Maintain that peaceful nursery, enabling stillness to speak.”

— Tom Althouse

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

— Wei Wu Wei

“I’m not allowed to walk topside, nor can I walk below deck. What could possibly be left for me to do? Oh,…

— Kinley MacGregor

“The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by…

— Nikki Rowe

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the…

— John Henry Newman

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

— Anonymous

There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and…

— Anonymous

Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Eva Burrows

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal,…

— Franz Liszt

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

— Paul Brunton

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

— James F. Cooper

“Ann, I know it’s hard to understand, but in that wonderful stillness, life becomes a dream and God becomes real.”

— Joseph Rector

“Somehow kids are supposed to match the levels of calm and composure we might find in mature forty-seven-year-olds. Estimates”

— Tyler Cowen

“Silence—people are afraid of it—they feel the need to make small talk, anything, just to break the stillness. I don’t feel any…

— Henry Martin

“It is in the stillness of our own self that we can learn those things that escape us in the noise of…

— Dr Ainslie Meares

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

— Eva Mendes