Serenity Quotes
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven. (Quote by - John Donne)
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. (Quote by - Johnny Miller)
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. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing. (Quote by - Loudon Wainwright)
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. (Quote by - Sylvia Kristel)
When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity. (Quote by - Alexandra Stoddard)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
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. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it, ... But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell. (Quote by - Joss Whedon)
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
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. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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. (Quote by - Alistair Cooke)
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. (Quote by - Paul Tsongas)
God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate. (Quote by - Dusty Springfield)
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. (Quote by - Alcoholics Anonymous)
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. (Quote by - Garth Brooks)
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. (Quote by - Thomas S. Szasz)
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Robert Foster Bennett)
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. (Quote by - Luis Barragan)
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. (Quote by - Emily Post)
The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
The apparent serenity of the past is an oil spread by time. (Quote by - Lloyd Frankenberg)
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. (Quote by - David Guterson)
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul. (Quote by - Karl Jaspers)
Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way. (Quote by - Earl G. Hunt)
There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. (Quote by - Keith Miller)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
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. (Quote by - Franz Liszt)
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. 'Waiting' like that is not merely wasting time. (Quote by - Eva Burrows)
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (Quote by - John Milton)
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. (Quote by - Toby Keith)
Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit. (Quote by - Sam J. Ervin)
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. (Quote by - Elle Macpherson)
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. (Quote by - Charles Gounod)
I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. (Quote by - Dirk Benedict)
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. (Quote by - Frank Wilczek)
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. (Quote by - Luis Barragan)
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
