Serenity Quotes
369 Serenity quotes by 269 unique authors
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If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of…
— Brigham Young
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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh…
— Vera Nazarian
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Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Endymion, you are my first love, my only love... even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other... and then... We'll fall in…
— Naoko Takeuchi
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends…
— Mother Teresa
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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to…
— Gladys Taber
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I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with…
— Edith Wharton
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I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival;…
— Andrew Sullivan
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love,…
— Og Mandino
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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men…
— Michael Morpurgo
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Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity...
— Surya Das
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There's a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be?
— Michael Morpurgo
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Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet…
— Taylor Swift
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I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a…
— Frank Herbert
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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
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Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those…
— Carlos Castaneda
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And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Serenity Quotes
269 authors contributed a total of 369 Serenity Quotes, led by these top contributors: