Serenity Quotes

369 Serenity quotes by 269 unique authors

We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond… — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the… — Mohsin Hamid
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab. — Mortimer Zuckerman
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
Punctuality or the lack thereof oftentimes is the only introduction one will ever have to new groups and friends. Serenity and poise are not the… — Marvin J. Ashton
Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone… — Khalil Gibran
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that… — Plutarch
True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions… — Zhuangzi
Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you—silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out… — Rajneesh
When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest.… — Rajneesh
Faith, courage, and intelligent and uninterrupted awareness - these qualities are to be present whether one is wide awake, half asleep, or in deep slumber.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
No one can achieve Serenity until the glare of passion is past the meridian. — Cyril Connolly
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? — Christopher Fry
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to… — Nadine Gordimer
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full… — Douglas Pagels
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:… — Rabindranath Tagore
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together… — Sanai
Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own… — Sengcan
When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a… — Francois Fenelon
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima
I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings. — Ann Jillian

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