Serenity Quotes

369 Serenity quotes by 269 unique authors

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts… — Grenville Kleiser
I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. — Shia LaBeouf
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion… — Franz Liszt
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner… — Elle Macpherson
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence… — Henri Matisse
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. — Johnny Miller
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… — Jawaharlal Nehru
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… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. — Jackson Pollock
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is… — Auguste Rodin
Silence is so accurate. — Mark Rothko
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… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. — Thomas Szasz
Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. — Paul Tsongas
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I… — Ayelet Waldman
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy… — Michael Weatherly
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. — Simone Weil
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had… — Ayn Rand
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,… — Henry Miller
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot… — Kurt Vonnegut
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why… — Marcus Aurelius
Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love… — Blaise Cendrars

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