A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

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

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 or fatter.
Elle Macpherson

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.
Alistair Cooke

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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 and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
Robert Foster Bennett

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

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

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

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.
Dusty Springfield

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil

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

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
Toby Keith

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.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers

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