Serenity Quotes

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

Change, God, Courage

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

Humor, Good, Best

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

Peace, War, Mind

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

Change, God, Courage

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love, Learning, Sweet

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse

Good, Art, Mind

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

Struggle, Against, Struggling

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 depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Good, Truth, Forget

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

Mind, Through, Moment

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Life, Wisdom, Within

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

Time, Feeling, Nothing

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

Life, Cheerful, Generosity

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

Joy, Hell, Heaven

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide

Art, Toward, Rising

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Die, After

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.
Jean Claude Van Damme

Freedom, Today, Training

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.
Shia LaBeouf

Inner, Diplomatic, Clooney

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

True, Children, Leaving

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

Peace, Happy, Getting

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

Space, Magic, Mystery

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

Good, Pretty, Knowing

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

Whatever, Willing, Share

Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
Isaac Barrow

Youth, Smiling, Immortal

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

War, Ignore, Away

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 now value as serenity.
Ayelet Waldman

Her, Married, Value

I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
Nathan Fillion

Love, Best, Job

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
Nathan Fillion

Movies, Made, Action

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
David Guterson

Time, Melancholy, Grasp

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 illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt

Life, Religion, Great

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

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